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KEYNOTES AND CHARACTERISTICS 
WITH COMPARISONS 



OF SOME OF THE 



LEADING REMEDIES 



OF THE 



MATERIA MEDICA 



BY 

J 

H. C. ALXEN, M.D. 

Professor of Materia Medica and the Organon in Hering Medical 
College and Hospital, Chicago. 

Second Edition. 
Revised and Enlarged. 



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PREFACE: SECOND EDITION. 



In preparing the second edition for the press the work 
has been enlarged and practically rewritten. Many more 
remedies have been included and symptoms and compari- 
sons extended, yet care has been taken that every symp- 
tom has been verified. The original plan has been main- 
tained, viz.: to give only those symptom-guides that 
mark the individuality of the remedy, that the student of 
materia medica may use them as land-marks to master 
the genius of the remedial agent. 

At the suggestion of the publisher and in response to 
numerous enquiries a more extended symptomatology of 
the nosodes has been included, for these invaluable addi- 
tions to our armamentarium, like the so-called tissue rem- 
edies of Schussler, only need more extensive provings to 
place them in the list of polychrests. 

That the student may acquire the correct pronunciation 
of our remedial agents an alphabetical list of remedies 
with the accentuation is given, for a homeopathic physi- 
cian may properly be held accountable for the correct use 
of terms peculiar to his profession. An index of reme- 
dies and comparisons is also included. 



PREFACE. 

The life-work of the student of the homeopathic 
Materia Medica is one of constant comparison and dif- 
ferentiation. He must compare the pathogenesis of a 
remedy with the recorded anamnesis of the patient; 
he must differentiate the apparently similar symptoms 
of two or more medicinal agents in order to select the 
simillimum. To enable the student or practitioner to 
do this correctly and rapidly he must have as a basis 
for comparison some knowledge of the individuality of 
the remedy ; something that is peculiar, uncommon, or 
sufficiently characteristic in the confirmed pathogenesis 
of a polychrest remedy that may be used as a pivotal 
point of comparison. It may be a so-called "key- 
note," a "characteristic," the "red strand of the 
rope," any central modality or principle — as the ag- 
gravation from motion of Bryonia, the amelioration 
from motion of Rhus, the furious, vicious delirium of 
Belladonna or the apathetic indifference of Phosphoric 
acid — some familiar landmark around which the symp- 
toms may be arranged in the mind for comparison. 

Something of this kind seems indispensable to ena- 
ble us to intelligently and successfully use our volu- 
minous symptomatology. Also, if we may judge from 



VI PREFACE. 

the small number of homeopathic physicians who 
rely on the single remedy in practice, and the almost 
constant demand for a "revision" of the Materia 
Medica, its study in the past, as well as at present, has 
not been altogether satisfactory to the majority. 

An attempt to render the student's task less diffi- 
cult, to simplify its study, to make it both interesting 
and useful, to place its mastery within the reach of 
every intelligent man or woman in the profession, is 
the apology for the addition of another monograph to 
our present works of reference. 

It is all-important that the first step in the study of 
homeopathic therapeutics be correctly taken, for the 
pathway is then more direct and the view more com- 
prehensive. The object of this work is to aid the 
student to master that which is guiding and character- 
istic in the individuality of each remedy and thus 
utilize more readily the symptomatology of the Home- 
opathic Materia Medica, the most comprehensive and 
practical work for the cure of the sick ever given the 
medical profession. It is the result of years of study 
as student, practitioner and teacher, and is published 
at the earnest solicitation of many alumni of Hering 
College, with the hope that it may be of as much bene- 
fit to the beginner as it has been to the compiler. 



ALPHABETICAL LIST OF REMEDIES. 



Abrot / anum. 
Acetic ac / id. 
Aconi / tum napel/lus. 
Acte / a racemc/sa. 
iESs'culus hippocas / tarmm. 
JEthu'sa cyna'pium. 
Agar'icus musca'rius 
Ag'nus cas / tus. 
Al'lium ce'pa. 
Al'oe socotri / na. 
Alumina. 
Am / bra gris'ea. 
Ammo'nium carbon'icum. 
Ammo / nium muriat / icum. 
Amyle'num nitro / sum. 
Anacar / dium orienta / le. 
Anthraci / num. 
Antimo / nium crud / um. 
Antimo / nium tartar / icum. 
A'pis mellif'ica. 
Apoc'ynum cannab'inum. 
Argen / tum tnetal'licum. 
Argen / tum ni / tricum. 
Arnica Montana. 
Arsenicum al/bum. 
A'rum triphyl/lum. 
As'arum Buropse / um. 
Aste'rias ru'bens. 
Auburn metal'licum. 

Baptis / ia tincto'ria. 
Bary'ta carbon'ica. 
Eelladon'na. 
Benzo'ic ac'id. 
Ber / beris vulga'ris. 



Bis'muth. 
Bc/rax vene'ta. 
Bovis / ta. 
Bro / mium. 
Bryo / nia al/ba. 

Cactus grandiflo / rus. 

Cala'dium. 

Calca'rea arsen'ica. 

Calca'sea ostrea'rum. 

Calca / rea phosphor'ica. 

Calendula. 

Cam / phora. 

Can / nabis In'dica. 

Can / nabis sati / va. 

Canthar'ides.' 

Cap / sicum an / uum. 

Car'bo anima'lis. 

Car / bo vegetab'ilis. 

Carbol'ic ac'id. 

Caulophyl'lum thalictroi'des. 

Caus / ticum. 

Chatn'omilla. 

Chelido / nium ma'jus. 

Cicu/ta viro / sa. 

Ci'na. 

Cincho / na officinalis. 

Cc/ca. 

Coc'culus In'dicus. 

Cof / fea cru / da. 

Col'chicum autumna'le. 

Col/linsonia Canaden / sis. 

Col'ocynthis. 

Coni'um inacula'tuni. 

Cro / cus sati / vus, 



Vlll 



ALPHABETICAL LIST 



Cro'talus hor / ridus. 
Crc/ton tig'lram. 
Cu / prum metal/licum. 
Cycla / men Europae'iim. 

Digita / lis purpu'rea. 
Diphtheri'num . 
Dioscore / a villo / sa. 
Dros / era rotun / difolia. 
Dulcamara. 

Equise'tum hyema'le. 
Eupato'rmm perfolia'tum. 
Euphrasia. 

Fer'rum metal'licum. 
Fluor / ic ac'id. 

Gelse'mium sempervi / rens. 

Glon / oine. 

Grapb/ites. 

Hamame'lis Virgin / ica. 
Helleb'orus ni / ger. 
Helon / ias dioi / ca. 
He'par sul'phur. 
Hydrastis Canaden / sis. 
Hyoscy'anms ni'ger. 
Hypericum perfora / tum. 

Igna / tia ama'ra. 

I'odium. 

Ipecacuanha. 

Ka / li bichro'micum. 
Ka'li broma / tum. 
Ka / li carbon'icum. 
Kal'mia latifo / lia. 
Kre / osotum. 

Lach'esis. 
Lac cani'num. 



Lac deflora / tum. 
Le'durn palus'tre. 
Lil'ium tigri / num. 
Lobe / lia infla'ta. 
Lycopo / dium clava'tum. 
Lys'sin. 

Magne / sia carbon'ica. 
Magnesia muriat / ica. 
Magne / sia phosphor'ica. 
Medorrhi / num. 
Melilo'tus officinalis. 
Menyan'thes trifol'iata. 
Mercu'rius. 

Mercu'rius corrosi'vus. 
Mercu'rius dul'cis. 
Mercu'rius cy'anide. 
Mercu'rius pro'to i'odide. 
Mercu'rius bin'iodide. 
Mercu'rius solu'bilis. 
Mercu'rius sulphure'tum. 
Meze'reum. 
Millefolium. 
Mu'rex purpurea. 
Muriat'ic ac'id. 

Na'ja tripu'dians. 
Na'trum carbon'icum. 
Na'trum muriat'icum. 
Na'trum sulphu'ricum. 
Ni'tric ac'id. 
Nux moscha'ta. 
Nux vom'ica. 

O'pium. 

Petrol' eum. 
Petroseli'num. 
Phosphor'ic ac'id. 
Phos'phorus. 
Physostig'ma. 
Podophyllum pelta'tum. 



OF REMEDIES. 



IX 



Phytolacca decan'dra. 
Pic'ric ac'id. 
Plat'ina metal'licum. 
Plum'bum metal'licum. 
Psori'num. 
Pulsatilla. 
Py'rogen. 

Rata'nhia. 

Ranun'culus bulbo'sa. 
Rhe'um. 
Rhododen'dron. 
Rhus rad'icans. 
Rhus toxicoden'dron. 
Ru'mex cris'pus. 
Ru'ta graveo'lens. 

Sabadil'la. 

Sabi'na. 

Sanibu'cus ni'gra. 

Sanguina'ria Canaden'sis. 

Sanic'ula. 

Sarsaparil'la. 

Seca'le cornu'tum. 

Sele'nium. 

Se'pia. 

Silic'ea. 



Spige'lia. 

Spon'gia tos'ta. 

Stan num. 

Staphisa'gria. 

Stramo'nium. 

Sulphur. 

Sulphuric ac'id. 

Symphytum officinale. 

Syphili num. 

Tab'acum. 
Taraxa'cum. 
Taren'tula. 
Terebin'thina. 
Therid'ion curassav'icum. 
Thlas'pi bur'sa pasto'ris. 
Thu'ja Occidentalls. 
Trillium pendulum. 
Tuberculi'num. 

Valeriana. 
Varioli'num. 
Vera'trum al'bum. 
Vera'trum \lrlde. 

Zin'cum metal'licum. 



CHARACTERISTICS 



OF SOME OF THE 



Leading Remedies. 



ABROTANUM. 

Southernwood. Composite. 

Alternate constipation and diarrhoea ; lienteria. 

Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, espe- 
cially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.) ; the skin is flabby 
and hangs loose in folds (of neck, Nat. m., Sanic). 

In marasmus head weak, cannot hold it up (^Eth.) 

Marasmus of lower extremities only. 

Ravenous hunger ; losing flesh while eating well 
(Iod., Nat. m., Sanic, Tub.). 

Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or 
following colic. 

Rheumatism : for the excessive pain before the 
swelling commences ; from suddenly-checked diarrhoea 
or other secretions; alternates with hemorrhoids, with 
dysentery. 

Gout : joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation ; 
wrists and ankle-joints painful and inflamed. 

Very lame and sore all over. 

Itching chilblains (Agar.). 

Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic 
fever with children ; unable to stand. 



ABROTANDM-( Continued ) . 

Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent ; 
violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel. 

Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.). 

Relationship. — After Hepar in furuncle; after 
Aeon, and Bry. in pleurisy, when a pressing sensation 
remains in affected side impeding respiration. 

ACETIC ACID. 

Glacial Acetic Acid. C 4 H^ O y 

Adapted to pale, lean persons with lax, flabby 
muscles ; face pale, waxy (Fer.). 

Hemorrhage : from every mucous outlet, nose, 
throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.); 
metrorrhagia ; vicarious ; traumatic epistaxis (Arm). 

Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children 
(Abrot, Iod., Sanic, Tub.). 

Great prostration: after injuries (Sulph. ac); after 
surgical shock ; after anesthetics. 

Thirst : intense, burning, insatiable even for large 
quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea ; but 
no thirst in fever. 

Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning 
water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night 
(L,ac. ac. — salivation < at night, Mer. s.). 

Diarrhoea : copious, exhausting, great thirst ; in 
dropsy, typhus, phthisis ; with night sweats. 

True croup, hissing respiration, cough with the in- 
halation (Spong.); last stages. 

Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been suc- 
cessfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria. 

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ACBTIC ACID— (.Continued). 

Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on 
back, Ars.); sensation of sinking in abdomen causing 
dyspnoea ; rests better lying on belly (Am. a). 

Hectic fever, skin dry and hot ; red spot on left 
cheek and drenching night sweats. 

Relationship. — It antidotes anaesthetic vapors 
(Amyl.); fumes of charcoal and gas ; Opium and 
Stramonium. 

Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. 

Follows well : after Cinchona, in hemorrhage ; after 
Digitalis, in dropsy. 

It aggravates : the symptoms of Arm, Bell., I^ach., 
Mer.; especially the headache from Belladonna. 



ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 

Monkshood. Ranunculacece. 

Is generally indicated in acute or recent cases oc- 
curring in young persons, especially girls of a full, 
plethoric habit who lead a sedentary life ; persons 
easily affected by atmospheric changes ; dark hair and 
eyes, rigid muscular fibre. 

Complaints caused by exposure to dry cold air, dry 
north or west winds, or exposure to draughts of cold 
air while in a perspiration ; bad effects of checked 
perspiration. 

Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great nervous 
excitability ; afraid to go out, to go into a crowd 
where there is any excitement or many people ; to 
cross the street. 

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ACOIVITUM NAPELLIJS-(C^^^). 

The countenance is expressive of fear ; the life is 
rendered miserable by fear ; is sure his disease will 
prove fatal ; predicts the day he will die ; fear of 
death during pregnancy. 

Restless, anxious, does everything in great haste ; 
must change position often ; everything startles him. 

Pains : are intolerable, they drive him crazy ; he 
becomes very restless ; at night. 

Hahnemann says : " Whenever Aconite is chosen 
homeopathically, you must, above all, observe the 
moral symptoms, and be careful that it closely resem- 
bles them : the anguish of mind and body ; the rest- 
lessness ; the disquiet not to be allayed." 

This mental anxiety, worry, fear accompanies the 
most trivial ailment. 

Music is unbearable, makes <her sad (Sab. — during 
menses, Nat. a). 

On rising from a recumbent position the red face 
becomes deathly pale, or he becomes faint or giddy 
and falls, and he fears to rise again ; often accompanied 
by vanishing of sight and unconsciousness. 

Amenorrhcea in plethoric young girls ; after fright, 
to prevent suppression of menses. 

For the congestive stage of inflammations before 
localization takes place. 

Fever : skin dry and hot ; face red, or pale and red 
alternately ; burning thirst for large quantities of cold 
water ; intense nervous restlessness, tossing about 
in agony ; becomes intolerable towards evening and 
on going to sleep. 

Convulsions : of teething children ; heat, jerks and 

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ACOXITUM NAPELLUS-(Owto^). 

twitches of single muscles ; child gnaws its fist, frets 
and screams ; skin hot and dry ; high fever. 

Cough, croup : dry, hoarse, suffocating ; loud, rough, 
croaking ; hard, ringing, whistling ; on expiration 
(Caust. — on inhalation, Spong.); from dry, cold winds 
or drafts of air. 

Aconite should never be given simply to control 
the fever, never alternated with other drugs for that 
purpose. If it be a case requiring Aconite no other 
drug is needed ; Aconite will cure the case. 

Unless indicated by the exciting cause, is nearly 
always injurious in first stages of typhoid fever. 

Aggravation. — Evening and night, pains are insup- 
portable ; in a warm room ; when rising from bed ; 
lying on affected side (Hep., Nux m.). 

Amelioration. — In the open air (Alum., Mag. c, 
Puis., Sab.). 

Relation. — Complementary : to Coffea in fever, 
sleeplessness, intolerance of pain ; to Arnica in trau- 
matism ; to Sulphur in all cases. Rarely indicated 
in fevers which bring out eruptions. 

Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both precedes 
and follows it in acute inflammatory conditions. 

Abuse of Aconite requires Sulphur. 



ACTEA RACEMOSA. 

Black Cohosh. Ranuncidacece. 

Puerperal mania ; thinks she is going crazy (com- 
pare, Syph.) ; tries to injure herself. 

Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. 

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ACTKA RACEMOSA-(CwA»«^). 

Sensation as if a heavy, black cloud had settled all 
over her and enveloped her head so that all is darkness 
and confusion. 

Illusion of a mouse running from under her chair 
(Lac c, iEth.). 

Ciliary neuralgia : aching or sharp, darting, shoot- 
ing pains in globes, extending to temples, vertex, oc- 
ciput, orbit, < going up stairs > lying down. 

Heart troubles from reflex symptoms of uterus or 
ovaries. Heart's action ceases suddenly ; impending 
suffocation ; palpitation from least motion (Dig.). 

Menses : irregular ; exhausting (Alum., Coc.) ; de- 
layed or suppressed by mental emotion, from cold, 
from fever ; with chorea, hysteria or mania ; increase 
of mental symptoms during. 

Spasms : hysterical or epileptic ; reflex from uterine 
disease ; worse during menses ; chorea < left side. 

Severe left-sided infra-mammary pains (Ust.). 

Sharp, lancinating, electric-like pains in various 
parts, sympathetic with ovarian or uterine irritation ; 
in uterine region, dart from side to side. 

Pregnancy : nausea ; sleeplessness ; false labor-like 
pains; sharp pains across abdomen ; abortion at third 
month (Sab.). 

During labor: "shivers" in first stage; convul- 
sions, from nervous excitement ; rigid os ; pains severe, 
spasmodic, tedious, < by least noise. 

After-pains, worse in the groins. 

When given during last month of pregnancy short- 
ens labor, if symptoms correspond (Caul., Puis.). 

Excessive muscular soreness, after dancing, skating, 

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ACTBA RACEMOSA-(G?«A»wrf). 

or other violent muscular exertion. 

Rheumatic pains in muscles of neck and back ; feel 
stiff, lame, contracted ; spine sensitive, from using 
arms in sewing, type writing, piano playing (Agar., 
Ran. b.). 

Rheumatism affecting the bellies of the muscles ; 
pains stitching, cramping. 

Rheumatic dysmenorrhcea. 

Relation. — Similar: to, Caul, and Puis, in uterine 
and rheumatic affections; to, Agar., I4L, Sep. 

Aggravation. — During menstruation : the more pro- 
fuse the flow the greater the suffering. 



^ESCUUUS HIPPOCASTAMJM. 

Horse Chestnut Sapindacecs . 

For persons with hemorrhoidal tendencies, and who 
suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles. 

Fullness in various parts, as from an undue amount 
of blood ; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin. 

Venous congestion, especially portal and hemor- 
rhoidal. 

Despondent, gloomy ; very irritable ; loses temper 
easily and gains control slowly ; miserably cross 
(Cham.). 

Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are 
swollen, burn, feel dry and raw. 

Coryza ; thin watery, burning ; rawness, and sensi- 
tive to inhaled cold air. 

Follicular pharyngitis ; violent burning, raw sensa- 
tion in throat ; dryness and roughness of throat. 
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^ESCUMJS HIPPOCASTANUM- ( Continued) . 

Frequent inclination to swallow, with burning, 
pricking, stinging and dry constricted fauces (Apis, 

Bell.). 

Rectum : dryness and heat of; feels as if full of 
small sticks ; knife-like pains shoot up the rectum 
(Ign., Sulph.); hemorrhoids blind, painful, burning, 
purplish ; rarely bleeding. 

Rectum sore,s with fulness, burning and itching 
(Sulph.). 

Constipation : hard, dry stool, difficult to pass ; with 
dryness and heat of rectum ; severe lumbosacral back- 
ache. 

Stool followed by fulness of rectum and intense 
pain in anus for hours (Aloe, Ign., Mur. ac, Sulph.). 

Prolapsus uteri and acrid, dark leucorrhoea, with 
lumbo-sacral backache and great fatigue from walking. 

Severe dull backache in lumbo-sacral articulation ; 
more or less constant ; affecting sacrum and hips. 

Back " gives out;" during pregnancy, prolapsus, 
leucorrhoea ; when walking or stooping ; must sit or 
lie down. 

Sensation of heaviness and lameness in back. 

Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine. 

Relation. — Similar: to, Aloe, Coll., Ign., Mur. ac, 
Nux, Sulph. in hemorrhoids. 

After Coll. has improved piles, iEsc. often cures. 

Useful after Nux and Sulph. had improved but 
failed to cure piles. 

Aggravation. — Motion ; backache and soreness, by 
walking and stooping ; inhaling cold air. 



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^ETHUSA CYNAPIUM. 

FooPs Parsley. Umbillifercs. 

Especially for children during dentition in hot sum- 
mer weather ; children who cannot bear milk. 

Great weakness : children cannot stand ; unable to 
hold up the head (Abrot.) ; prostration with sleepiness. 

Idiocy in children : incapacity to think ; confused. 

An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a 
drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia. 

Features expressive of pain and anxiety. 

Herpetic eruption on end of the nose. 

Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puis.— rev. of Ars.). 

Intolerance of milk : cannot bear milk in any form ; 
it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken ; then 
weakness causes drowsiness (compare, Mag. a). 

Indigestion of teething children ; violent, sudden 
vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance ; or yellow 
fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter. 

Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating ; 
copious greenish vomiting. 

Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, 
eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated ; 
foam at the mouth, jaws locked ; pulse small, hard, 
quick. 

Weakness and prostration with sleepiness ; after 
vomiting, after stool, after spasm. 

Relation. — Similar: to, Ant. c, Ars., Cal., Sanic. 

Aggravation. — After eating or drinking ; after 
vomiting ; after stool ; after spasm. 



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AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 

Toadstool. Fungi. 

Persons with light hair ; skin and muscles lax. 

Old people, with weak, indolent circulation, 

Drunkards, especially for their headaches ; bad 
effects after a debauch (Lob., Nux, Ran.). 

Delirium : with constant raving ; tries to get out of 
bed ; in typhoid or typhus. 

Headaches : of those who readily become delirious 
in fever or with pain (Bell.) ; of persons subject to 
chorea, twitchings or grimaces ; from spinal affections. 

Chilblains, that itch and burn intolerably ; frostbite 
and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in 
face. 

Involuntary movements while awake, cease during 
sleep ; chorea, from simple motions and jerks of single 
mucles to dancing of whole body ; trembling of whole 
body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.). 

Sensation as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were 
piercing the skin ; as from hot needles. 

Burning, itching redness of various parts ; ears, 
nose, face, hands and feet ; parts red, swollen, hot. 

Uncertainty in walking, stumbles over everything 
in the way ; heels pain as if beaten, when standing. 

Spine sensitive to touch (Ther.); worse mornings. 

Pain : sore, aching, in lumbar and sacral regions ; 
during exertion in the day time ; while sitting (Zinc). 

Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses (Kali p.) 

Nervous prostration after sexual debauches. 

Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.). 

Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in 
spine. Single vertebrae sensitive to touch. 

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AGARICUS MUSCARIUS— ( Continued ) . 

Prolapsus, post-climacteric ; bearing-down pain al- 
most intolerable (compare, Milium, Murex, Sepia). 

Extremely sensitive to cold air (Cal., Kali c, Psor.). 

Complaints appear diagonally ; upper left and lower 
right side (Ant. t., Stram. — upper right, lower left, 
Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul. ac). 

Relations. — Similar: to, Act., Cal., Can. Ind., Hyos., 
Kali p., Lach., Nux, Op., Stram., in delirium of alco- 
holism ; to, Myg., Tar., Zinc, in chorea. 

Aggravation. — After eating ; after coitus ; cold air ; 
mental application ; before a thunder-storm (Phos., 
Psor.). 

AGNUS CASTUS. 

Chaste tree. Verbenacece. 

For the lymphatic constitution. 

Absent-minded, reduced power of insight ; cannot 
recollect ; has to read a sentence twice before he can 
comprehend (L^yc, Phos. ac, Sep.). 

" Old sinners," with impotence and gleet ; unmar- 
ried persons suffering from nervous debility. 

Premature old age : melancholy, apathy, mental 
distraction, self-contempt ; arising in young persons 
from abuse of the sexual powers ; from seminal losses. 

Complete impotence : relaxation, flaccidity, cold- 
ness of genitalia. No sexual power or desire (Calad., 

Sel.). 

Impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhoea. 
Bad effects from suppressed gonorrhoea (Med.). 
Gleet, with absence of sexual desire or erections. 
L,eucorrhcea : transparent, but staining linen yellow ; 
passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts. 

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AGNUS C ASTUS— ( Continued ) . 

Deficient secretion or suppression of milk in nurs- 
ing women (Asaf., I^ac c, Lac d.); often with great 
sadness ; says she will die. 

Complaints of imaginary odor before the nose, as of 
herring or musk. 

Prevents excoriation, from walking. 

Relations. — Calad. and Selen. follow well after 
Agnus in weakness of sexual organs or impotence. 



AULIUM CEPA. 

Onion. Liliacece. 

Acute catarrhal inflammation of mucous mem- 
branes, with increased secretion. 

Catarrhal dull headache, with coryza ; < in the 
evening, > in open air ; < on returning to a warm 
room (compare, Euph., Puis.). 

Headache ceases during menses ; returns when flow 
disappears (L,ach., Zinc). 

Byes ; burning, biting, smarting as from smoke, 
must rub them ; watery and suffused ; capillaries in- 
jected and excessive lachrymation. 

Coryza ; profuse, watery and acrid nasal discharge, 
with profuse, bland lachrymation (profuse, full of 
acrid tears, bland and fluent coryza, Euph.). 

Acrid, watery discharge dropping from tip of nose 
(Ars., Ars. iod.). 

Spring coryza : after damp northeasterly winds ; dis- 
charge burns and corrodes nose and upper lip. 

Hay fever : in August every year ; violent sneezing 
on rising from bed ; from handling peaches. 

Nasal polypus (Mar. v., Sang., Sang, nit., Psor.). 

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AULIUM CEP A— ( Continued ) . 

Catarrhal laryngitis ; cough compels patient to grasp 
the larynx ; seems as if cough would tear it. 

Colic : from cold by getting feet wet ; over eating ; 
from cucumbers, salads ; hemorrhoidal ; of children ; 
< sitting, > moving about. 

Neuralgic pains like a long thread ; in face, head, 
neck, chest. 

Traumatic chronic neuritis ; neuralgia of stump 
after amputation ; burning and stinging pains. 

Panaritia : with red streaks up the arm ; pains drive 
to despair ; in child-bed. 

Sore and raw spots on feet, especially heel, from 
friction. "Efficacious when feet are rubbed sore." — 
Dioscorides. 

Phlebitis, puerperal ; after forceps delivery. 

Relation. — Complementary: Phos., Puis., Thuja. 

Compatible : before, Cal. and Sil. in polypus. 

Similar : to, Euph., but coryza and lachrymation are 
opposite. 

Bad effects from getting feet wet (Rhus). 

Aggravation. — Predominantly in the evening and 
in warm room (Puis. — in open air, Euph.). 

Amelioration. — In cold room and open air (Puis.). 

ALOE SOCOTRINA. 

Soco trine Aloes. Liliacece. 

Adapted to indolent, "weary" persons; averse to 
either mental or physical labor ; mental labor fatigues. 

Old people ; especially women of relaxed, phleg- 
matic habit. Extreme prostration, with perspiration. 

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AI.OE SOCOTRINA— {Continued). 

Itch appears each year, as winter approaches (Psor.). 

Dissatisfied and angry about himself or his com- 
plaints, especially when constipated. 

Diseases of mucous membranes ; causes the pro- 
duction of mucus in jelly-like lumps from throat or 
rectum ; affects mucous membrane of rectum. 

Headache across the forehead < by every footstep 
(Bell., Bry.) ; with heaviness of eyes and nausea. 

Headaches : are worse from heat, better from cold 
applications (Ars.) ; alternating with lumbago ; after 
insufficient stool. 

Diarrhoea : has to hurry to closet immediately after 
eating and drinking (Crot. t.)/ with want of confidence 
in sphincter ani ; driving out of bed early in the morn- 
ing (Psor., Rum., Sulph.). 

When passing flatus, sensation as if stool would 
pass with it (Olean., Mur. ac, Nat. m.). 

Colic : cutting, griping pain in right lower portion 
of abdomen ; excruciating, before and during stool; 
all pains cease after stool, leaving profuse sweating 
and extreme weakness ; attacks preceded by obstinate 
constipation. 

Flatus offensive, burning, copious ; much flatus with 
small stool (Agar.) ; burning in anus after passage of 
flatus. 

Solid stool and masses of mucus pass involuntarily ; 
hungry during diarrhoea. 

Before stool : rumbling, violent sudden urging, 
heaviness in rectum ; during stool, tenesmus and much 
flatus ; after stool, faintness. , 

Hemorrhoids : blue, like a bunch of grapes (Mur. 

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AI.OK SOCOTRINA— {Continued). 

ac.) ; constant bearing down in rectum ; bleeding, 
sore, tender, hot, relieved by cold water ; intense itch- 
ing. 

Itching and burning in anus, preventing sleep 
(Ind.). 

Relation. — L,ike Sulphur in many chronic diseases 
with abdominal plethora and congestion of portal 
circulation ; develops suppressed eruptions. 

Similar : to, Am. m., Gamb., Nux, Pod. 

Aggravation. — Early morning ; sedentary life ; hot, 
dry weather ; after eating or drinking ; standing or 
walking. 

Amelioration. — Cold water; cold weather; dis- 
charge of flatus and stool. 



ALUMINA. 

Pure Clay. Al r O s . 

Adapted to persons who suffer from chronic dis- 
eases ; "the Aconite of chronic diseases." 

Constitutions deficient in animal heat (Cal., Sil.). 

Spare, dry, thin subjects ; dark complexion ; mild, 
cheerful disposition ; hypochondriacs ; dry, tettery, 
itching eruption, worse in winter (Petr.); intolerable 
itching of whole body when getting warm in bed 
(Sulph.); scratches until bleeds, then becomes painful. 

Time passes too slowly ; an hour seems half a day 
(Cann. Ind.). 

Inability to walk, except with the eyes open, and in 
the daytime ; tottering and falling when closing eyes 
(Arg. n M Gels.). 

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AUUMIX A— ( Continued ) . 

Abnormal appetite ; craving for starch, chalk, char- 
coal, cloves, coffee- or tea-grounds, acids and indiges- 
tible things (Cic, Psor.) ; potatoes disagree. 

Chronic eructations for years ; worse in evening. 

All irritating things — salt, wine, vinegar, pepper — 
immediately produce cough. 

Constipation : no desire for and no ability to pass 
stool until there is a large accumulation (Melil.); great 
straining, must grasp the seat of closet tightly ; stool 
hard, knotty, like laurel berries, covered with mucus ; 
or soft, clayey, adhering to parts (Plat.). 

Inactivity of rectum, even soft stool requires great 
straining (Anac, Plat., SiLj Ver.). 

Constipation : of nursing children, from artificial 
food; bottle-fed babies; of old people (Lye, Op.); of 
pregnancy, from inactive rectum (Sep.). 

Diarrhoea when she urinates. 

Has to strain at stool in order to urinate. 

L,eucorrhcea : acrid and profuse, running down to 
the heels (Syph.) ; worse during the daytime ; > by 
cold bathing. 

After menses ; exhausted physically and mentally, 
scarcely able to speak (Carbo an., Coc). 

Talking fatigues ; faint and tired, must sit down. 

Relations. — Complementary : to Bryonia. 

Follows: Bry., L,ach., Sulph. 

Alumina is the chronic of Bryonia. 

Similar : to, Bar. c, Con., in ailments of old people. 

Aggravation. — In cold air ; during winter ; while 
sitting ; from eating potatoes ; after eating soups ; on 
alternate days ; at new and full moon. 

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AtrUMIlV A— ( Continued ) . 

Amelioration. — Mild summer weather ; from warm 
drinks ; while eating (Psor.) ; in wet weather (Caust). 

Alumina is one of the chief antidotes for lead poi- 
soning ; painter's colic ; ailments from lead. 



AMBRA GRISEA. 

Ambergris. A Nosode. 

For children, especially young girls who are ex- 
citable, nervous and weak ; nervous affections of old 
people, nerves u worn out." 

L,ean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily. 

Great sadness, sits for days weeping. 

After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, 
must get up (Act, Sep.). 

Ranula with fetid breath (Thuja). 

Sensation of coldness in abdomen (Cal.). 

The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbear- 
able during stool ; frequent, ineffectual desire, which 
makes her anxious. 

Discharge of blood between periods, at very little 
accident — a long walk, after every hard stool, etc. 

L,eucorrhcea ; thick, bluish-white mucus, especially 
or only at night (Caust., Mer., Nit. ac). 

Violent cough in spasmodic paroxysms, with eruc- 
tations and hoarseness ; worse talking or reading 
aloud (Dros., Phos.) ; evening without, morning with 
expectoration (Hyos.) ; whooping-cough, but without 
crowing inspiration. 

Relations. — Similar : to, Act, Asaf., Coca, Ign., 
Mosch., Phos., Val. 

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AMBRA GRISE A— ( Continued ) . 

Aggravation. — Warm drinks, warm room ; music ; 
lying down ; reading or talking aloud ; the presence 
of many people ; after waking. 

Amelioration. — After eating ; cold air ; cold food 
and drinks ; rising from bed. 



AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 

Smelling Salts. zNHJD^CO^ 

Hemorrhagic diathesis, fluid blood and degeneration 
of red blood-corpuscles ; ulcerations tend to gangrene. 

Stout, fleshy women with various troubles in con- 
sequence of leading a sedentary life ; delicate women 
who must have the " smelling-bottle " continually at 
hand ; readily catch cold in winter. 

Children dislike washing (Ant. a, Sulph.). 

Loses breath when falling asleep, must awaken 
to get breath (Grind., L,ach.). 

Ill-humor during wet, stormy weather. 

Headache ; sensation of fullness, as if forehead 
would burst (Bell., Glon.). 

Nosebleed : when washing the face (Arn., Mag. c.) 
and hands in the morning, from left nostril; after eating. 

Ozena, blowing bloody mucus from the nose fre- 
quently ; blood rushes to tip of nose, when stooping. 

Stoppage of nose, mostly at night ; must breathe 
through the mouth, a keynote even in diphtheria ; 
long-lasting coryza ; " snuffles " of infants (Hep., Nux, 
Samb., Sticta). 

Putrid sore throat ; tendency to gangrenous ulcera- 
tion of tonsils ; glands engorged. 

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AMMONIUM CARBONICUM-( Continued ) . 

In diphtheria or scarlatina when the nose is stopped 
up ; child cannot sleep because cannot get its breath. 

Cholera-like symptoms at the commencement of 
menstruation (Bov., Ver.). 

Menses : too early, profuse, preceded by griping 
colic ; acrid, makes the thighs sore ; copious at night 
and when sitting (Zinc.) ; with toothache, colic, sad- 
ness ; fatigue, especially of thighs ; yawning and 
chilliness. 

Iveucorrhcea : watery, burning from the uterus ; 
acrid, profuse from the vagina ; excoriation of vulva. 

Dyspnoea with palpitation, worse by exertion or on 
ascending even a few steps ; worse in a warm room. 

One of the best remedies in emphysema. 

Cough ; dry, from tickling in throat as from dust, 
every morning from 3 to 4 A. m. (Kali c). 

Panaritium ; deep-seated periosteal pain (Dios., Sil.). 

Body red, as if from scarlatina (compare, Ailan.). 

Malignant scarlatina with deep sleep ; stertorous 
breathing. Miliary rash or faintly developed eruption 
from defective vitality ; threatened paralysis of brain 
(Tub., Zinc.) 

Relations. — It antidotes, poisoning with Rhus and 
stings of insects. 

Affects the right side most. 

Inimical : to, Lachesis. 

Aggravation. — Cold, wet weather ; wet poultices ; 
from washing ; during menses. 

Amelioration. — Lying on abdomen (Acet. ac.) ; on 
painful side (Puis.) ; in dry weather. 



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AMMONIUM MURIATICUM. 

Sal Ammoniac. NH^Cl. 

Especially adapted to those who are fat and slug- 
gish ; or body large and fat but legs too thin. 

Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip (All. a). 

During menses : diarrhoea and vomiting ; bloody dis- 
charge from the bowels (Phos.); neuralgic pains in the 
feet ; flow more profuse at night (Bov. — on lying 
down, Kreos.). 

Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus. 

Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expul- 
sion ; crumble from the verge of anus (Mag. m.) ; 
vary in color, no two stools alike (Puis.). 

Hemorrhoids : sore and smarting ; with burning 
and stinging in the rectum for hours after stool (iEsc, 
Sulph.); especially after suppressed leucorrhoea. 

Iveucorrhcea ; like white of pgg ) preceded by grip- 
ing pain about the navel ; brown, slimy, painless, after 
every urination. 

Sensation of coldness in the back, between scapulae 
(Iyachn.). 

Hamstrings feel painfully short when walking ; ten- 
sion in joints as from shortening of the muscles 
(Caust, Cimex). 

Offensive sweat of the feet (Alum., Graph., Psor., 
Sanic, Sil.). 

Relation. — Followed: by, Ant. c, Phos., Puis., Sanic. 

AMYLENUM NITROSUM. 

Nitrite of Amy 1. C lQ H n O, NO y 

For nervous, sensitive, plethoric women, during or 
after the menopause. 

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AMYLENUM NITROSUM- {Continued). 

Often palliative in incurable cases ; very important 
as regards euthanasia. 

Rapidly dilates the arteries and accelerates, but later 
weakens and retards the pulse. 

Intense surging of blood to face and head (Bell., 
Glon.). 

Craves fresh air ; opens clothing, removes bed cov- 
ering and opens windows in the coldest weather (Arg. 
n., Iyach., Sulph.). 

Fhishings ; start from face, stomach, various parts 
of body, followed by sweatings, often hot, profuse ; 
abruptly limited, parts below are icy cold ; followed by 
great prostration. 

Face flushes at the slightest emotion (Coca, Fer.). 

Blushing : chronic or acute ; sea sickness. 

Hemicrania, especially when afflicted side is palid. 

Collar seems too tight, must loosen it (L,ach.). 

Angina pectoris ; tumultuous heart action ; intense 
throbbing of heart and carotids (Glon.). 

Constant stretching for hours; impossible to satisfy 
the desire ; would seize the bed and call for help to 
stretch. 

Profound and repeated yawning (Kali a). 

Puerperal convulsions immediately after delivery. 

Relations. — Similar: to, Bell., Cac, Coca, Fer., 
Glon., Iyach. m 

Aggravation. — Mental or physical exertion. 

Acts promptly by inhalation ; resuscitates persons 
sinking under anaesthetics. 

Crude drug chiefly palliative ; must be repeated as 



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AMYJLENUM NITROSUM-(G»tf»«^). 

patient becomes accustomed to it ; is curative in the 
stronger higher potencies. 

The cure more frequently depends upon the strength 
of the potency than many who have not put it to 
the curative test imagine. 



ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE. 

Marking Nut. Anacardiacece* 

Sudden loss of memory; everything seems to be in 
a dream ; patient is greatly troubled about his forget- 
fulness ; confused, unfit for business. 

Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness. 

Irresistible desire to curse and swear (Lac c, Lil., 
Nit. ac. — wants to pray continually, Stram.). 

L,ack of confidence in himself and others. 

Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding 
him to do what the other forbids. 

When walking, is anxious, as if some one were pur- 
suing him ; suspects everything around him. 

Weakness of all the senses. 

Hypochondriac, with hemorrhoids and constipation. 

Strange temper, laughs at serious matters and is 
serious over laughable things. Thinks herself a demon ; 
curses and swears. 

Sensation : as of a hoop or band around apart (Cac, 
Carb. ac, Sulph.) ; or as of a dull, blunt instrument 
pressing ; as of a plug in inner parts. 

Headache ; relieved entirely when eating (Psor.), 
when lying down in bed at night, and when about fall- 
ing asleep ; worse during motion and work. 

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ANACAROIUM ORIElVrAI^B— ( Continued ) . 

Gastric and nervous headaches of sedentary per- 
sons (Arg. n., Bry., Nux). 

Apt to choke when eating and drinking (Can. s., 
Kava kava, Nit. ac). 

Swallows food and drink hastily ; symptoms disap- 
pear while eating (Kali p., Psor.). 

Stomach : sensation of fasting " all gone," comes 
on only when stomach is empty and is > by eating ; 
(Chel., Iod.); > during process of digestion (rev. of 
Bry., Nux). 

Warts on palms of hands (Nat. m.). 

Great desire for stool, but with the effort the desire 
passes away without evacuation ; rectum seems power- 
less, paralyzed, with sensation as if plugged up (ir- 
regular peristaltic or over action, Nux). 

Relations. — Compare : Rhus r., Rhus t. and Rhus v. 

Symptoms are prone to go from right to left (Lye). 

Anacardium follows well : after, Lye, and Puis. 

Anacardium follows, and is followed by Platina. 



ANTHRACINUM. 

Anthrax Poison. A Nosode. 

In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with 
ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. 

When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails 
to relieve the burning pain of carbuncle or malignant 
ulceration. 

Hemorrhages ; blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus 
or sexual organs ; black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decom- 
posing (Crot). 

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ANTHRACINUM-(C^»«^) . 

Septic fever, rapid loss of strength, sinking pulse, 
delirium and fainting (Pyr.). 

Gangrenous ulcers ; felon, carbuncle, erysipelas of 
a malignant type. 

Felon ; the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible 
burning pain (Ars., Carb. ac, L,acli.). 

Malignant pustule ; black or blue blisters ; often 
fatal in twenty-four or forty-eight hours (Xach., Pyr.). 

Carbuncle ; with horrible burning pains ; discharge 
of ichorous offensive pus. 

Dissecting wounds, especially if tendency is to be- 
come gangrenous ; septic fever, marked prostration 
(Ars., Pyr.). 

Suspicious insect stings. If the swelling changes 
color and red streaks from the wound map out the 
course of lymphatics (Xach., Pyr.). 

Septic inflammation from absorption of pus or other 
deleterious substances, with burning pain and great 
prostration (Ars., Pyr.). 

Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle, horses and sheep. 

Bad effects from inhaling foul odors of putrid fever 
or dissecting-room; poisoning by foul breath (Pyr.). 

Hering says : " To call a carbuncle a surgical dis- 
ease is the greatest absurdity. An incision is always 
injurious and often fatal. A case has never been lost 
under the right kind of treatment, and it should al- 
ways be treated by internal medicine only." 

Relations. — Similar: to, Ars., Carb. ac, Lach., Sec, 
Pyr., in malignant and septic conditions. 

Compare : Buphor. in the terrible pains of cancer, 
carbuncle or erysipelas when Ars. or Anth. fail to >. 

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ANTIHOIVIUM CRUDXJM. 

Sulphide of Antimony. SbS z . 

For children and yonng people inclined to grow fat 
(Cal.) ; for the extremes of life. 

Old people with morning diarrhoea, suddenly be- 
come constipated, or alternate diarrhoea and constipa- 
tion ; pulse hard and rapid. 

Sensitive to the cold, < after taking cold. 

Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched 
or looked at ; sulky, does not wish to speak or be 
spoken to (Ant. t, Iod., Sil.); angry at every little at- 
tention. 

Great sadness, with weeping. 

Loathing life. 

Anxious lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects 
her (Puis.) ; abject despair, suicide by drowning. 

Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses. 

Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ec- 
static love ; bad effects of disappointed affection 
(Cal. p.). 

Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and 
crusty. 

Headache : after river bathing ; from taking cold ; 
alcoholic drinks ; deranged digestion, acids, fat, fruit ; 
suppressed eruption. 

Gastric complaints from over-eating ; stomach weak, 
digestion easily disturbed ; a thick, milky- white 
coating on the tongue, which is the red strand of the 
remedy ; very subject to canker sores in the mouth 
(Arg. n., Sulph.). 

Ivonging for acids and pickles. 

Gastric and intestinal affections : from bread and 

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ANTIMONIUM CRXJDUM— (Continued). 

pastry ; acids, especially vinegar ; sour or bad wine ; 
after cold bathing ; over-heating ; hot weather. 

Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for 
years ; belching, tasting of ingesta. 

Mucus : in large quantities from posterior nares by 
hawking ; from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow ; 
mucous piles. 

Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin ; finger 
nails do not grow rapidly ; crushed nails grow in splits 
like warts and with horny spots. 

Iyarge horny corns on soles of feet (Ran. b.) ; very 
sensitive when walking, especially on stone pavements. 

Loss of voice from becoming over-heated. 

Cannot bear the heat of the sun ; worse from exer- 
tion in the sun (Xach., Nat. m.) ; < from over-heating 
near the fire ; exhausted in warm weather ; ailments 
from sunburn. 

Whooping-cough : < by being over-heated in the 
sun or in a warm room ; from cold washing. 

When symptoms reappear they change locality or 
go from one side of the body to the other. 

Aversion to cold bathing ; child cries when washed 
or bathed with cold water ; cold bathing causes vio- 
lent headache ; causes suppressed menses ; colds from 
swimming or falling into the water (Rhus). 

Relations. — Complementary : Squilla. 

Similar : to, Bry., Ipec, Lye, Puis., in gastric com- 
plaints. 

Follows well : after, Ant. c, Puis., Mer., Sulph. 

Aggravation. — After eating ; cold bath ; acids or 



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ANTIMOXIUM CRUDIJM-(C^//m^). 

sour wine ; after heat of sun or fire ; extremes of cold 
or heat. 

Amelioration. — In the open air ; during rest ; after 
a warm bath. 

A1VTIMOIVIUM TARTARICUM. 

Tartar Emetic. 

Adapted to torpid, phlegmatic persons ; the hydro- 
genoid constitution (of Grauvogl). 

Diseases originating from exposure in damp base- 
ments or cellars (Ars., Aran., Tereb.). 

Through the pneumogastric nerve it depresses the 
respiration and circulation, thus producing the key- 
note of the remedy, viz., when the patient coughs 
there appears to be a large collection of mucus in the 
bronchi ; it seems as if much would be expectorated, 
but nothing comes up. 

Child : clings to those around ; wants to be carried ; 
cries and whines if any one touches it ; will not let 
you feel the pulse (Ant. c, Sanic). 

Face cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat (Tab.). 

Tongue coated, pasty, thick, white, with reddened 
papillae and red edges ; red in streaks ; very red, dry in 
the middle ; extraordinary craving for apples (Aloe — 
for acids, pickles, Ant. c). 

Vomiting: in any position except lying on right 
side ; until he faints ; followed by drowsiness and 
prostration; of cholera morbus with diarrhoea and 
cold sweat, a dose after each attack (Ver.). 

Asphyxia : mechanical, as apparent death from 
drowning ; from mucus in bronchi ; from impending 

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AXTIMONIUM TARTARICUM- ( Continued) 

paralysis of lungs ; from foreign bodies in larynx or 
trachea ; with drowsiness and coma. 

Great sleepiness or irresistible inclination to sleep, 
with nearly all complaints (Nux m., Op.). 

Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping ; asphyxia 
neonatorum. Relieves the " death-rattle " (Taran.). 

Icterus with pneumonia, especially of right lung. 

Relations. — Similar : to, Lycopodium ; but spas- 
modic motion of alae is replaced by dilated nostrils ; 
to Veratrum, both have diarrhoea, colic, vomiting, 
coldness and craving for acids ; to Ipecac, but more 
drowsiness from defective respiration ; nausea, but > 
after vomiting. 

When lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy, 
cough declines or ceases, it supplants Ipec. 

For bad effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and 
Silicea is not indicated. 

Before Silicea in dyspnoea from foreign bodies in the 
larynx or trachea ; Puis, in suppressed gonorrhoea ; 
Tereb. from damp basements. 

Children not easily impressed when Ant. tart, seems 
indicated in coughs, require Hepar. 

In spring and autumn, when damp weather com- 
mences, coughs of children get worse. 

Aggravation. — In damp, cold weather ; lying down 
at night ; warmth of room ; change of weather in 
spring (Kali s., Nat. s.). 

Amelioration. — Cold open air ; sitting upright ; 
expectorating ; lying on right side (Tab.). 



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APIS UBIJLIFICA. 

Poison of the Honey Bee. Apium virus. 

Adapted to the strumous constitution ; glands en- 
larged, indurated ; scirrhus or open cancer. 

Women, especially widows ; children and girls who, 
though generally careful, become awkward, and let 
things fall while handling them (Bov.). 

Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly de- 
veloped or suppressed (Zinc); measles, scarlatina, 
urticaria. 

Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad 
news. 

Irritable ; nervous ; fidgety ; hard to please. 

Weeping disposition ; cannot help crying ; discour- 
aged, despondent (Puis.). 

Sudden, shrill, piercing screams from children while 
waking or sleeping (Hellebore). 

CEdema : bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes 
(over the eyes, Kali c); of the hands and feet ; dropsy, 
without thirst (with thirst, Acet. ac, Apoc). 

Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., L,ach.). 

Pain : burning, stinging, sore ; suddenly migrating 
from one part to another (Kali bi., Lac c, Puis.). 

Thirstlessness : in anasarca ; acites (Acetic acid, 
but face more waxy and great thirst). 

Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the 
parts ; can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and 
when passed scalds severely ; frequent, painful, scanty, 
bloody. 

Constipation : sensation in abdomen as if some- 
thing tight would break if much effort were used. 

Diarrhoea : of drunkards ; in eruptive diseases, espe- 

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APIS MEULIFICA— (Continued). 

cially if eruption be suppressed ; involuntary from 
every motion, as though, anus were wide open (Phos.). 

Affects right side ; enlargement or dropsy of right 
ovary ; right testicle. 

Intermittent fever ; chill 3 p. M., with thirst, always 
(Ign.); < warm room and from external heat. (Thuja, 
3 A. M. and at 3 p. M.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Nat. mur. 

Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus. 

Ars. and Puis, follow Apis well. 

Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth., Dig., 
Hell, failed. 

Aggravation. — After sleeping (Lach.) ; closed, es- 
pecially warmed and heated rooms are intolerable ; 
from getting wet (Rhus), but better from washing or 
moistening the part in cold water. 

Amelioration. — Open air ; cold water or cold bath- 
ing ; uncovering ; pains by coughing, walking or 
changing position ; when sitting erect. 



APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 

Indian Hemp. Apocynacece. 

Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat. 

Dropsy of serous membranes ; acute, inflammatory. 

Dropsy : with thirst (Acet. ac), water disagrees or is 
vomited (Ars.) ; most cases uncomplicated with or- 
ganic diseases ; after typhus, typhoid, scarlatina, cir- 
rhosis ; after abuse of quinine. 

Acute hydrocephalus, with open sutures ; stupor, 
sight of one eye lost ; constant and voluntary motion 

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APOC YNUM CANNABINUM- ( Con tin tied) . 

of one arm and one leg (left arm and leg, Bry.) ; fore- 
head projected. 

Amenorrhoea in young girls, with bloating or drop- 
sical extension of abdomen and extremities. 

Metrorrhagia : continued or paroxysmal flow ; fluid 
or clotted ; nausea, vomiting, palpitation ; pulse quick, 
feeble, when moved ; vital depression, fainting, when 
raising head from the pillow. 

Cough, short and dry, or deep and loose, during 
pregnancy (Con.). 

Relations. — Similar: to, Acetic acid, Apis (no 
thirst), Ars., Cinch., Dig., in dropsical affections. 

Blatta orientalis has cured bad cases of general 
dropsy, after Apis, Apoc. and Dig. failed. — Haynes. 

ARGENTUM METALLICUM. 

The Metal. Pure Silver. 

Tall, thin, irritable persons. 

Ailments from abuse of Mercury. 

Constitutional effects of onanism. 

Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, eustachian ; 
the structures entering into joints. 

Seminal emissions : after onanism ; almost every 
night ; without erection ; with atrophy of penis. 

Crushed pain in the testicles (Rhod.). 

Prolapsus ; with pain in left ovary and back, ex- 
tending forward and downward (right ovary, Pal.) ; 
climacteric hemorrhage. 

Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing. 

Hoarseness ; of professional singers, public speakers 
(Alum., Arum t). 

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ARGBIVTUM METALLICUM-(G«//m^). 

Total loss of voice with professional singers. 

Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing 
or coughing. 

Laughing excites cough (Dros., Phos., Stan.) and 
produces profuse mucus in larynx. 

When reading aloud has to hem and hawk ; cough 
with easy expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucus, 
looking like boiled starch. 

Great weakness of the chest (Stan.) ; worse left side. 

Alteration in timbre of voice with singers and pub- 
lic speakers (Arum t.). 

Raw spot over bifurcation of the trachea ; worse 
when using voice, talking or singing. 

Relation. — Follows well : after, Alum. 

Similar : to, Stan, in cough excited by laughing. 

Aggravation. — Riding in a 'carriage (Coc.) ; when 
touched or pressed upon; talking, singing, reading aloud. 

ARGENTUM NIXRICXJM. 

The Silver Nitrate. AgO, NO b . 

Acute or chronic diseases from unusual or long-con- 
tinued mental exertion. 

Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, 
dried-up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec). 

Emaciation, progressing every year ; most marked 
in lower extremities (Am. m.) ; marasmus. 

Apprehension when ready for church or opera, 
diarrhoea sets in (Gels.). 

Time passes slowly (Can. I.) ; impulsive, wants to 
do things in a hurry ; must walk fast ; is always 
hurried ; anxious, irritable, nervous (Aur., Lil.)- 

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ARGBXTUBf NITRIGUM-(G«//««^). 

Headache : congestive, with fulness and heaviness ; 
with sense of expansion ; habitual gastric of literary 
men ; from dancing ; hemicrania, pressive, screwing 
in frontal eminence or temple ; ending in bilious 
vomiting ; < from any exhaustive mental labor ; > by 
pressure or tight bandaging (Apis, Puis.). 

Acute granular conjunctivitis ; scarlet-red, like raw 
beef; discharge profuse, muco-purulent. 

Ophthalmia neonatorum : profuse, purulent dis- 
charge ; cornea opaque, ulcerated ; lids sore, thick, 
swollen ; agglutinated in morning (Apis, Mer. s., Rhus). 

Eye strain from sewing, < in warm room > in 
open air (Nat. m., Ruta) ; diseases due to defective 
accommodation. 

Craves sugar ; child is fond of it, but diarrhoea re- 
sults from eating (craves salt or smoked meat, Cal. p.). 

Belching accompanies most gastric aihnents. 

Flatulent dyspepsia : belching after every meal ; 
stomach, as if it would burst with wind ; belching 
difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence. 

Diarrhoea : green mucus, like chopped spinach in 

flakes ; turning green after remaining on diaper ; after 

drinking; after eating candy or sugar ; masses of 

muco-lymph in shreddy strips or lumps (Asar.) ; with 

much noisy flatus (Aloe). 

Diarrhoea as soon as he drinks (Ars., Crot. t., 
Throm.). 

Urine passes unconsciously day and night (Caust). 

Impotence : erection fails when coition is attempted 
(Agnus, Calad., Selen.). 



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ARGENTUM NITRICTM-(G«/m^). 

Coition : painful in both sexes ; followed by bleed- 
ing from the vagina (Nit. ac.). 

Metrorrhagia : in young widows ; in sterility ; with 
nervous erethism at change of life (Iyach.). 

Great longing for fresh air (Amyl., Puis., Sulph.). 

Chronic laryngitis of singers ; the high notes cause 
cough (Alum., Arg. m., Arum). 

Great weakness of lower extremities, with tremb- 
ling ; cannot walk with the eyes closed (Alum.). 

Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he 
thinks himself unobserved. 

Convulsions preceded by great restlessness. 

Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing 
(Dolich., Hep., Nit. ac, Sil.) ; in or about uterus 
when walking or riding. 

Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if 
wrapped up ; craves fresh air. 

Prevents excessive granulation in ulcers. 

Relation. — Natrum mur. for the bad effect of 
cauterizing with nitrate of silver. 

Coffea increases nervous headache. 

Boys' complaints after using tobacco (Ars., Ver.). 

Similar : to, Nat. m., Nit. ac, Lach., Aur., Cup. 

After Ver.; L,yc follows well in flatulent dyspepsia. 

Aggravation. — Cold food ; cold air ; eating sugar ; 
ice cream ; unusual mental exertion. 

Amelioration. — Open air ; craves the wind blowing 
in his face ; bathing with cold water. 

The 200 or 1 oooth potency in watery solution as 
a topical application in ophthalmia neonatorum has 
relieved when the crude Silver nitrate failed. 

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ARNICA MONTANA. 

Leopard's Bane. Composites. 

Nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, lively 
expression and very red face. 

For trie bad effects resulting from mechanical in- 
juries ; even if received years ago. 

Especially adapted to those who remain long im- 
pressed by even slight mechanical injuries. 

Sore, lame, bruised feeling all through the body, 
as if beaten ; traumatic affections of muscles. 

Mechanical injuries, especially with stupor from 
concussion ; involuntary feces and urine. 

After injuries with blunt instruments (Symph.). 

Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration 
(Calend.). 

Concussions and contusions, results of shock or in- 
jury ; without laceration of soft parts ; prevents sup- 
puration and septic conditions and promotes absorp- 
tion. 

Nervous, cannot bear pain ; whole body over-sensi- 
tive (Cham., Cof., Ign.). 

Everything on which he lies seems too hard ; com- 
plains constantly of it and keeps moving from place 
to place in search of a soft spot (the parts rested upon 
feel sore and bruised, Bap., Pyr.; must move continu- 
ally to obtain relief from the pain, Rhus). 

Heat of upper part of body ; coldness of lower. 

The face or head and face alone is hot, the body 
cool. 

Unconsciousness ; when spoken to answers cor- 
rectly, but unconsciousness and delirium at once re- 
turn (falls asleep in the midst of a sentence, Bap.). 

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AR1VICA MONTANA-( Continued ) . 

Says there is nothing the matter with him. 

Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries ; 
from falls, concussion of brain, etc. When suspect- 
ing exudation of blood, to facilitate absorption. 

Hydrocephalus ; deathly coldness in forearm of chil- 
dren (in diarrhoea, Brom.). 

Apoplexy ; loss of consciousness, involuntary evacua- 
tion from bowels and bladder ; in acute attack, con- 
trols hemorrhage and aids absorption ; should be re- 
peated and allowed to act for days or weeks unless 
symptoms call for another remedy. 

Conjunctival or retinal hemorrhage, with extravasa- 
tion, from injuries or cough (L,ed., Nux). 

Gout and rheumatism, with great fear of being 
touched or struck by persons coming near him. 

Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised sort of 
feeling in pelvic region. 

Tendency to small, painful boils, one after another, 
extremely sore (small boils in crops, Sulph.). 

Paralysis (left-sided) ; pulse full, strong ; stertor, 
sighing, muttering. 

Belching ; eructations ; foul, putrid, like rotten 
eggs. 

Dysentery ; with ischuria, fruitless urging ; long 
interval between the stools. 

Constipation ; rectum loaded, feces will not come 
away ; ribbon-like stools from enlarged prostate or 
retroverted uterus. 

Soreness of parts after labor ; prevents post-partum 
hemorrhage and puerperal complications. 

Retention or incontinence of urine after labor (Op.). 

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ARNICA MONTANA— {Continued). 

Relation. — Complementary: to, Aeon., Hyper. 
Rhus. 

Similar : to, for soreness as if bruised, Bap., China, 
Phyt, Pyr., Rhus, Ruta, Staph. 

Arnica follows well : after, Aeon., Apis, Ham., Ipec., 
Ver.; is followed by, Sul. ac. 

In ailments from spirituous liquors or from charcoal 
vapors, Arn. is often indicated (Am. c, Bov.). 

In spinal concussion, compare Hyper. 

Aggravation. — At rest ; when lying down ; from 
wine. 

Amelioration. — From contact ; motion (Rhus, 
Ruta.). 

ARSENICUM ALBUM. 

White Oxide of Arsenic. As 2 0. A . 

Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital 
forces ; fainting. 
The disposition is : 

a. Depressing, melancholic, despairing, indifferent. * 

b. Anxious, fearful, restless, full of anguish. 

c. Irritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed. 
The greater the suffering the greater the anguish, 

restlessness and fear of death. 

Mentally restless, but physically too weak to move; 
cannot rest in any place ; changing places continually ; 
wants to be moved from one bed to another, and lies 
now here, now there. 

Anxious fear of death ; thinks it useless to take 
medicine, is incurable, is surely going to die ; dread 
of death, when alone, or, going to bed. 

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ARSENICUM ALBUM- (Continued). 

Attacks of anxiety at night, driving out of bed, < 
after midnight. 

Burning pains ; the affected parts burn like fire, 

as if hot coals were applied to parts (Anthr.), > by 
heat, hot drinks, hot applications. 

Burning thirst without special desire to drink ; the 
stomach does not seem to tolerate, because it cannot 
assimilate, cold water ; lies like a stone in the stomach. 
It is wanted, but he cannot or dare not drink it. 

Cannot bear the smell or sight of food (Colch., Sep.). 

Great thirst for cold water ; drinks often, but little 
at a time ; eats seldom, but much. 

Gastric derangements : after cold fruits ; ice cream ; 
ice water ; sour beer ; bad sausage ; alcoholic drinks ; 
strong cheese. 

Teething children are pale,, weak, fretful, and want 
to be carried rapidly. 

Diarrhoea, after eating or drinking ; stool scanty, 
dark-colored, offensive, and, whether small or large, 
followed by great prostration. 

Hemorrhoids : with stitching pain when walking or 
sitting, not at stool ; preventing sitting or sleep ; 
burning pain > by heat ; fissures make voiding urine 
difficult. 

Breathing : asthmatic ; must sit or bend forward ; 
springs out of bed at night, especially after twelve 
o'clock ; unable to lie down for fear of suffocation; 
attacks like croup instead of the usual urticaria. 

Rapid emaciation : with cold sweat and great de- 
bility (Tub., Ver.) ; of affected parts ; marasmus. 

Anasarca, skin pale, waxy, earth-colored (Acet. ac). 

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ARSENICUM ALBUM- ( Continued ) . 

Excessive exhaustion from least exertion. 

Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying 
still ; when he moves he is surprised to find himself 
so weak. 

Symptoms generally worse from 1-2 p.m., 12-2 a.m. 

Skin : dry and scaly ; cold, blue and wrinkled ; with 
cold, clammy perspiration ; like parchment ; white 
and pasty ; black vesicles and burning pain. 

Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, 
whether by inoculation, olfaction or ingestion. 

Complaints return annually (Carbo v., L,ach., Sulph., 
Thuja). 

Relation. — Complementary : Allium s., Carbo v., 
Phos., Pyr. 

Ars. should be thought of in ailments from : chew- 
ing tobacco ; alcoholism ; sea bathing ; sausage poison- 
ing ; dissecting wounds and anthrax poison ; stings of 
venomous insects. 

Aggravation. — After midnight (1 to 2 a. m. or p. 
M.)\from cold; cold drinks or food ; when lying on 
affected side or with the head low. 

Amelioration. — From heat in general (reverse of 
Sec.) except headache, which is temporarily > by 
cold bathing (Spig.) ; burning pain > by heat. 

ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. 

Indian Turnip. Aracecz. 

Coryza ; acrid, fluent ; nostrils raw. 

Nose feels stopped up in spite of the watery dis- 
charge (compare, Am. c, Samb., Sinap.) ; sneezing 
< at night. 

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ARUM TRIPHYLLUM-( Continued ) . 

Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of 
nose, alse, and upper lip (Ars., Cepa). 

Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds ; bor- 
ing with the finger into the side of the nose. 

Picks lips until they bleed ; corners of mouth sore, 
cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cund.) ; 
bites nails until fingers bleed. 

Patients pick and bore into the raw bleeding sur- 
faces though very painful ; scream with pain but keep 
up the boring (in diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoidj. 

Children refuse food and drink on account of sore- 
ness of mouth and throat (Mer.) ; are sleepless. 

Saliva profuse, acrid, corrodes the mucous mem- 
brane ; tongue and buccal cavity raw and bleeding. 

Aphonia: complete,after exposure to northwest winds 
(Aeon., Hep.); from singing (Arg. n., Caust, Phos., Sel.). 

Clergyman's sore throat ; voice hoarse, uncertain, 
uncontrollable, changing continually ; worse from 
talking, speaking or singing ; orators, singers, actors. 

Desquamation in large flakes, a second or third 
time, in scarlatina. 

Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or sup- 
pressed urine ; threatened uremia. 

The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant 
scarlatina and diphtheria. 

Relations. — Useful : after, Hep. and Nit. ac. in dry, 
hoarse, croupy cough ; after Caust. and Hep. in morn- 
ing hoarseness and deafness, and in scarlatina. 

Should not be given low or repeated often, as bad 
effects often follow. — Dr. h> 

The higher potencies most prompt and effective. 

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ASARXJM EUROPIUM. 

European Snake Root. Aristolochiacecz. 

Nervous, anxious people ; excitable or melancholy. 

Imagines lie is hovering in the air like a spirit 
(I^ac c.) ; lightness of all the limbs. 

Cold "shivers" from any emotion. 

Oversensitiveness of nerves, scratching of linen or 
silk, crackling of paper is unbearable (Fer., Tar.). 

Sensation as if ears were plugged up with some for- 
eign substance. 

When reading, sensation in eyes as if they would 
be pressed asunder or outward ; relieved by bathing 
them in cold water. 

Cold air or cold water very pleasant to the eyes ; 
sunshine, light and wind are intolerable. 

Nausea : in attacks or constant (Ipec.) ; < after eat- 
ing, tongue clean (Sulph.) ; of pregnancy. 

Unconquerable longing for alcohol ; a popular rem- 
edy in Russia for drunkards. 

" Horrible sensation " of pressing, digging in the 
stomach when waking in the morning (after a de- 
bauch). 

Great faintness and constant yawning. 

Relation. — Similar : to, Caust. in modalities ; to 
Aloe, Arg. n., Mer., Pod., Puis., Sulph. ac. in stringy, 
shreddy stools. 

Aggravation. — In cold and dry, or clear, fine 
weather (Caust.). 

Amelioration. — Washing face or bathing affected 
parts with cold water ; in damp, wet weather (Caust.). 

Followed : by, Bis., Caust., Puis., Sulph. ac. 



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ASTKRIUS RUBENS. 

Star-fish. Radiata. 

For the sycotic diathesis ; flabby, lymphathic con- 
stitution ; irritable temperament. 

Easily excited by any emotion, especially by con- 
tradiction (Anac, Con.). 

Heat of the head, as if surrounded by hot air. 

Sanguineous congestion to the brain. 

Apoplexy ; face red, pulse hard, full, frequent. 

Cancer of mammae ; acute, lancinating pain ; draw- 
ing pain in breast ; swollen, distended, as before the 
menses ; breast feels drawn in. 

A livid red spot appeared, broke and discharged ; 
gradually invaded entire breast, very fetid odor; edges 
pale, elevated, mamillary, hard, everted ; bottom cov- 
ered with reddish granulations. 

Gait unsteady ; muscles refuse to obey the will 
(Alum., Gels.). 

Epilepsy ; twitching over the whole body four or 
five days before the attack. 

Constipation : obstinate ; ineffectual desire ; stool 
of hard, round balls, like olives. 

Diarrhoea : watery, brown, gushing out in a violent 
jet (Crot. t, Grat, Gum., Jatr., Thuja). 

Sexual desire increased in women (I4I.). 

Relations. — Similar : to, Murex, Sepia. 

Compare : Carbo an., Con., Sil. in mammary can- 
cer ; Bell., Cal., Sulph. in epilepsy. 



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AURUM METALXrlCUM. 

Gold. The Element. 

Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes ; 
lively, restless, anxious about the future. 

Old people ; weak vision ; corpulent ; tired of life. 

For constitutions broken down by bad effects of 
mercury and syphilis. 

Pining boys ; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, 
lacking in " boyish go ;" testes undeveloped, mere 
pendent shreds. 

Constantly dwelling on suicide (Naja — but is afraid 
to die, Nux). 

Profound melancholy : feels hateful and quarrel- 
some ; desire to commit suicide ; life is a constant 
burden ; after abuse of mercury ; with nearly all com- 
plaints. 

Uneasy, hurried, great desire for mental and physi- 
cal activity ; cannot do things fast enough (Arg. n.). 

Ailments from grief, disappointed love, with long- 
ing for death and suicide. 

Ailments from fright, anger, contradiction, mortifi- 
cation, vexation, dread, or reserved displeasure (Staph.). 

Oversensitive ; least contradiction excites wrath 
(Con.); to pain ; to smell, taste, hearing, touch (Anac). 

Headache of people with dark olive-brown com- 
plexion ; sad, gloomy, taciturn ; disposed to constipa- 
tion ; from least mental exertion. 

Falling of the hair, especially in syphilitic and mer- 
curial affections. 

Hemiopia ; sees only the lower half (sees only the 
left half, Uth. c, Lye). 

Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones. 

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AURUM MATAULICUM— ( Continued ) . 

Caries : of the nasal, palatine and mastoid bones ; 
ozena, otorrhoea, excessively fetid discharge ; pains 
worse at night ; drive to despair ; of mercurial or 
syphilitic origin (Asaf.). 

Prolapsed and indurated uterus ; from over-reacning 
or straining (Pod., Rhus); from hypertrophy (Con.). 

Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melan- 
choly ; < at menstrual period. 

Foul breath ; in girls at puberty. 

Sensation as if the heart stood still ; as though it 
ceased to beat and then suddenly gave one hard 
thump (Sep.). 

Violent palpitation : anxiety, with congestion of 
blood to head and chest after exertion ; pulse small, 
feeble, rapid, irregular ; visible beating of carotid and 
temporal arteries (Bell., Glon.). - 

Fatty degeneration of heart (Phos.). 

Relations. — Aurum follows, and is followed well by 
Syphilinum. 

Similar : to Asaf., Cal., Plat., Sep., Tar., Ther., in 
bone, uterine diseases. 

Aggravation. — In cold air ; when getting cold ; 
while lying down ; mental exertion ; many complaints 
come on only in winter. 

Amelioration. — In warm air,- when growing warm, 
in the morning, and during summer. 



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BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 

Wild Indigo. Leguminosce. 

For the lymphatic temperament. 

Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition 
of fluids (Pyr.); ulceration of mucous membranes. 

All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in 
typhoid or other acute diseases ; breath, stool, urine, 
perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyr.). 

Aversion to mental exertion ; indisposed, or want 
of power, to think. 

Perfect indifference, don't care to do anything ; in- 
ability to fix the mind on work. 

Stupor ; falls asleep while being spoken to or in 
the midst of his answer (when spoken to, answers 
correctly, but delirium returns at once, Arn.). 

Tongue : at first coated white with red papillae ; 
dry and yellow-brown in centre ; later dry, cracked, 
ulcerated. 

Face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a stupid, be- 
sotted, drunken expression (Gels.). 

Can swallow liquids only (Bar. a); least solid food 
gags (can swallow liquids only, but has aversion to 
them, Sil.). 

Painless sore throat ; tonsils, soft palate and parotids 
dark red, swollen ; putrid, offensive discharge (Diph.). 

Dysentery of old people ; diarrhoea of children, es- 
pecially when very offensive (Carbo v., Pod., Psor.). 

Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself 
together ; head or body feels scattered about the bed ; 
tosses about to get the pieces together ; thought she 
was three persons, could not keep them covered (Petr.). 

In whatever position the patient lies, the parts 

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BAPTISIA TINCTORU-(G?«A»«^). 

rested upon feel sore and bruised (Pyr. — compare > 
Arn., Pyr.). 

Decubitus in typhoid (Arn., Mur. ac, Pyr.). 

Relation. — Similar : to, Arn., Ars., Bry., Gels., in 
the early stages of fever with malaise, nervousness, 
flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular soreness. 

When Ars. has been improperly given or too often 
repeated in typhoid or typhus. 

After Baptisia : Crot, Ham., Nit. ac. and Tereb. 
act well in hemorrhage of typhoid and typhus. 

BARYTA CARBONICA. 

Barium Carbonate. BaCoj. 

Especially adapted to complaints of first and second 
childhood ; the psoric or tubercular. 

Memory deficient : forgetful, inattentive ; child can- 
not be taught for it cannot remember ; threatened 
idiocy. 

Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (chil- 
dren who grow too rapidly, Cal.); scrofulous ophthal- 
mia, cornea opaque ; abdomen swollen ; frequent at- 
tacks of colic ; face bloated ; general emaciation. 

Children both physically and mentally weak. 

Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maids with 
scanty menses ; deficient heat, always cold and chilly. 

Old, cachectic people ; scrofulous, especially when 
fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints 
(Fluor, ac). 

Diseases of old men ; hypertrophy or induration of 
prostate and testes ; mental and physical weakness. 

Apoplectic tendency in old people ; complaints of 

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BARYTA CARBONICA— {Continued). 

old drunkards ; headache of aged people, who are 
childish. 

Persons subject to quinsy, take cold easily ; or with 
every, even the least, cold have an attack of tonsillitis, 
prone to suppuration (Hep., Psor.). 

Inability to swallow anything but liquids (Bap., Sil.). 

Hemorrhoids protude every time he urinates (Mur. 
ac). 

Chronic cough in psoric children ; enlarged tonsils 
or elongated uvula ; < after slight cold (Alum.). 

Swellings and indurations, or incipient suppuration 
of glands, especially cervical and inguinal. 

Offensive foot sweat ; toes and soles get sore ; of the 
heels ; throat affections after checked foot sweat (com- 
pare, Graph., Psor., Sanic, Sil.). 

Great sensitiveness to cold (Cal., Kali c, Psor.). 

Relation. — Frequently useful before or after Psor., 
Sulph. and Tub. 

After Bar. c, Psor. will often eradicate the consti- 
tutional tendency to quinsy. 

Similar: to, Alum., Cal. iod., Dul., Fluor, ac, Iod., Sil. 

Incompatible : after, Calc. in scrofulous affections. 

Aggravation. — When thinking of his disease (Oxal. 
ac.) ; lying on painful side ; after meals ; washing 
affected part. 

BELLADONNA. 

Deadly Nightshade. Solanacece. 

Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitu- 
tions ; persons who are lively and entertaining when 
well, but violent and often delirious when sick. 

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BBLXADOIVIVA— ( Continued ) . 

Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, 
fine complexion, delicate skin ; sensitive, nervous, 
threatened with convulsions ; tuberculous patients. 

Great liability to take cold ; sensitive to drafts of 
air, especially when uncovering the head ; from hav- 
ing the hair cut ; tonsils become inflamed after riding 
in a cold wind (Aeon., Hep., Rhus — takes cold from 
exposure of feet, Con., Cup., Sil.). 

Quick sensation and motion ; eyes snap and move 
quickly ; pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and 
cease suddenly (Mag. p.). 

Pains usually in short attacks ; cause redness of 
face and eyes ; fulness of head and throbbing of 
carotids. 

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various 
insects (Stram.) ; black animals, dogs, wolves. 

Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from 
them ; hallucinations. 

Violent delirium ; disposition to bite, spit, strike 
and tear things ; breaks into fits of laughter and 
gnashes the teeth ; wants to bite and strike the at- 
tendants (Stram.) ; tries to escape (Hell.). 

Head hot and painful ; face flushed ; eyes wild, star- 
ing, pupils dilated ; pulse full and bounding, globular, 
like buckshot striking the finger ; mucous membrane 
of mouth dry ; stool tardy and urine suppressed ; 
sleepy, but cannot sleep (Cham., Op.). 

Convulsions during teething, with fever (without 
fever, Mag. p.) ; come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold. 

Rush of blood to head and face (Amyl., Glon., 
Mel.). 

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BEXI^ADOIVNA— {Continued ). 

Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of 
brain and carotids (Mel) ; < from slight noise, jar, 
motion, light, lying down, least exertion ; > pressure, 
tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses. 

Boring the head into the pillow (Apis, Hell., Pod.). 

Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stoop- 
ing (Bry.) ; on every change of position. 

Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of 
the bed ; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a 
jar. 

Pain in r. ileo-ccecal region, < by slightest touch, 
even the bed-cover. 

The transverse colon protrudes like a pad. 

Skin : of a uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet red- 
ness ; dry, hot, burning ; imparts a burning sensation 
to examining hand ; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, 
where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet. 

Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen 
would issue from the vulva ; > standing and sitting 
erect ; worse mornings (L4L, Mur., Sep.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Calcarea. 

Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often 
required to complete a cure. 

Similar : to, Aeon.', Bry., Cic, Gels., Glon., Hyos., 
Mel., Op., Stram. 

Aggravation. — From touch, motion, noise, draught 
of air, looking at bright, shining objects (Lys., Stram.); 
after 3 p. m.; night, after midnight; while drinking; 
uncovering the head ; summer sun ; lying down. 

Amelioration. — Rest; standing or sitting erect; 
warm room. 

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BENZOIC ACID. 

QH 5 ,CO,Off. 

A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonor- 
rhceal or syphilitic patient. 

Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the 
joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion ; no- 
dosities (Berb., Iyith. c, I^yc.). 

Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly in- 
tensified. 

Enuresis nocturna of delicate children ; dribbling 
urine of old men with enlarged prostate ; strong char- 
acteristic odor ; excess of uric acid. 

Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhoea. 

Diarrhoea of children ; white, very offensive, ex- 
hausting liquid stools, running " right through the 
diaper " (Pod.) ; urine offensive and of a deep red color. 

Cough ; with expectoration of green mucus (Natr. s.); 
extreme weariness, lassitude. 

Pains, tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe ; 
redness and swelling of joints ; gout < at night. 

Relation. — Similar: to, Cop., Nitr., Fer., Thuja, es- 
pecially in enuresis after Nitr. has failed ; Berb., 
L,ith. c. in arthritic complaints. 

Useful after Colch. fails in gout ; after abuse of 
Cop. in suppression of gonorrhoea. 

Incompatible : wine, which aggravates urinary, 
gouty and rheumatic affections. 

BERBERIS VULGARIS. 

Barberry. Berberidacece. 

The renal or vesical symptoms predominate. 
Pain in small of back ; very sensitive to touch in 

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BERBERIS VULGARIS-(CwA»«^). 

renal region ; < when sitting and lying, from jar, 
from fatigue. 

Burning and soreness in region of kidneys. 

Numbness, stiffness, lameness with painful pressure 
in renal and lumbar regions. 

Pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and 
hollow, blue encircled eyes. 

Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of 
the urinary organs. 

Colic from gall-stones. 

Bilious colic, followed by jaundice ; clay-colored 
stools ; fistula in ano, with bilious symptoms and itch- 
ing of the parts ; short cough and chest complaints, 
especially after operations for fistulse (Cal. p., Sil.). 

Stitching, cutting pain from left kidney following 
course of ureter into bladder and urethra (Tab. — r. 
kidney, Lye). 

Renal colic, < left side (Tab. — either side, with 
urging and strangury, Canth.). 

Bubbling sensation in kidneys (Med.). 

Urine : greenish, blood-red, with thick, slimy mucus ; 
transparent, reddish or jelly-like sediment. 

Movement brings on or increases urinary com- 
plaints. 

Relation. — Similar : to, Canth., Lye, Sars., Tab., in 
renal colic. 

Acts well : after, Arm, Bry., Kali bi., Rhus, Sulph., 
in rheumatic affections. 

Aggravation. — Motion, walking or carriage-riding ; 
any sudden jarring movement. 



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BISMUTH. 

Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth. BI 2 O^OH 2 . 

Solitude is unbearable: desires company ; child 
holds on to its mother's hand for company (Kali c, 
I4L, Lye). 

Anguish; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long 
in one place. 

Headache returning every winter ; alternating with, 
or attended by gastralgia. 

Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes. 
Toothache > by holding cold water in mouth (Bry., 
Com, Puis.). 

Vomiting : of water as soon as it reaches the 
stomach, food retained longer (vomits food and water 
Ars.); of enormous quantities, at intervals of several 
days when food has filled the stomach ; of all fluids as 
soon as taken ; and purging, offensive stools (watery 
stools, Ver.); with convulsive gagging and inexpress- 
ible pain, after laparotomy (Nux, Staph.). 

Stomach : pressure as from a load in one spot ; 
alternating with burning ; pain crampy, spasmodic ; 
with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis. 

Cholera morbus and summer complaint, when 
vomiting predominates ; stools foul, papescent, watery ? 
offensive, very prostrating (Ars., Ver.). 

BORAX. 

Biborate of Soda. 

Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints. 

Great anxiety from downward motion ; when laying 
the child down on a couch or in the crib, cries and 
clings to the nurse ; when rocking, dancing, swinging ; 

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BORAX— ( Continued ) . 

going down stairs or rapidly down hill ; horseback- 
riding (compare, Sanic). 

Children awake suddenly, screaming and grasping 
sides of cradle, without apparent cause (Apis, Cina, 
Stram.). 

Excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slight- 
est noise or an unusual sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, 
a cry, lighting a match, etc. (Asar., Calad.). 

Hair becomes frowsy and tangled ; splits, sticks to- 
gether at the tips ; if these bunches are cut off, they 
form again, cannot be combed smooth (Fluor, ac, 
Lye, Psor., Tub.). 

Eyelashes : loaded with dry, gummy exudation ; 
agglutinated in morning ; turn inward and inflame 
the eye, especially at outer canthus ; tendency to 
" wild hairs." 

Nostrils crusty, inflamed ; tip of nose shining red ; 
red noses of young women. 

Stoppage of r. nostril, or first r. then left, with con- 
stant blowing of nose (Am. c, Lac c, Mag. m.). 

AphthcB : in the mouth, on the tongue, inside of the 
cheek ; easily bleeding when eating or touched ; pre- 
vents child from nursing; with hot mouth, dryness 
and thirst (Ars.); cracked and bleeding tongue (Arum); 
salivation, especially during dentition. 

Aphthous sore mouth ; is worse from touch ; eating 
salty or sour food ; of old people, often from plate of 
teeth (Alumen). 

Child has frequent urination and screams before 
urine passes (Lye, Sanic, Sars.). 

Leucorrhcea : profuse, albuminous, starchy, with 

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BORAX — ( Co?itinued ) . 

sensation as if warm water were flowing down ; for 
two weeks between the catamenia (compare, Bov., 

Con.). 

Skin ; unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate (Calend., 
Hep., Mer., Sil.). 

Relation. — Borax follows : Calc., Psor., Sanic., 
Sulph. 

Is followed : by Ars., Bry., Lye., Phos., Sil. 

Incompatible : should not be used before or after, 
Acetic acid, vinegar, wine. 

Aggravation. — Downward motion; from sudden, 
slight noises ; smoking, which may bring on diar- 
rhoea ; damp, cold weather ; before urinating. 

Amelioration. — Pressure ; holding painful side with 
hand. 

BO VISTA. 

Puff ball. Fungi. 

Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or 
moist. 

Adapted to old maids ; with palpitation. 

Stammering children (Stram.). 

Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes 
very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali bi.). 

Unusually deep impression on finger, from using 
blunt instruments, scissors, knife, etc. 

Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Calc, 
L,ach., Sulph.). 

Sweat in axilla, smells like onions. 

Hemorrhage : after extraction of teeth (Ham.); 
from wounds ; epistaxis. 

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BO VIST A— ( Continued ) . 

Great weakness of joints and weariness of hands 
and feet. 

Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from hands 
(Apis); objects fall from powerless hands. 

Menses : flow only at night, not in the daytime 
(Mag. c. — only dnring day, cease lying, Cac, Caust, 
Lil.); diarrhoea before and during menses (Amm. a); 
occasional show every few days between periods (Bor.); 
every two weeks, dark and clotted ; with painful bear- 
ing down (Sep.). 

Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx ; must scratch 
till parts become raw and sore. 

Relations. — Compare : Am. c, Bell., Calc, Mag. s., 
Sep. in menstrual irregularities. 

Bovista antidotes, effects of local applications of 
tar ; suffocation from gas. 

When Rhus seems indicated, but fails to cure, in 
chronic urticaria. 

BROMIUM. 

Bromine. ' The Element. 

It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with 
light-blue eyes, flaxen hair, light eyebrows, fair, deli- 
cate skin ; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous girls. 

Sensation of cobweb on the face (Bar., Bor., Graph.). 

Fan-like motion of alse nasi (Ant. t, I^yc). 

Sailors suffer with asthma " on shore." 

Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of 
glands, especially on lower jaw and throat (thyroid, 
submaxillary, parotid, testes). 

Diphtheria : where the membrane forms in pharynx • 

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BROMIUM-(G7»/z««(?flf ) . 

beginning in bronchi, trachea or larynx, and extend- 
ing upwards ; chest pains running upwards. 

Membranous and diphtheritic croup ; much rattling 
of mucus dtcring cough, but no choking (as in Hepar) ; 
sounds loose, but no expectoration (Ant. t.). 

Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whoop- 
ing-cough ; gasping for breath. 

Dyspnoea : cannot inspire deep enough ; as if breath- 
ing through a sponge or the air passages were full of 
smoke or vapor of sulphur ; rattling, sawing ; voice 
inaudible ; danger of suffocation from mucus in larynx 
(in bronchi, Ant. t). 

Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics in growing 
boys (from calisthenics in young girls, Caust.). 

Physometra ; loud emission of flatus from the vagina 
(Iyyc.) ; membranous dysmenorrhoea (L,ac c). 

Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration (Rhus, 
Sulph.) ; > after shaving (< after shaving, Carbo an.). 

Relations. — Compare : in croup and croupy affec- 
tions, Chlor., Hep., Iod., Spong. 

Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed. 

Brom. has cured in croup after failure of Iod., Phos., 
Hep., Spong.; especially in relapses after Iod. 

" The chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is, 
the former cures the blue-eyed and the latter the 
black-eyed patients." — Hering. 

BRYONIA ALBA. 

White Bryony, Wild Hop. CucurbitacecE. 

Is best adapted to persons of a gouty or rheumatic 
diathesis ; prone to so-called bilious attacks. 

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BRYONIA ALBA- {Continued). 

Bryonia patients are irritable, inclined to be vehe- 
ment and angry ; dark or black hair, dark complex- 
ions, firm muscular fibre ; dry, nervous, slender peo- 
ple (Nux). 

Pains : stitching, tearing, worse at night ; < by 
motion, inspiration, coughing ; > by absolute rest, 
and lying on painful side (Ptel., Puis. — stitching pain, 
but < and > are opposite, Kali a). 

Excessive dryness of mucous membranes of entire 
body ; lips and tongue dry, parched, cracked ; stool, 
dry as if burnt ; cough, dry, hard, racking, with 
scanty expectoration ; urine, dark and scant)' ; great 
thirst. 

Vicarious menstruation ; nosebleed when menses 
should appear (Phos.) ; blood spitting, or hemoptysis. 

Ailments from chagrin, mortification, anger (Col., 
Staph.) ; violence, with chilliness and coldness ; after 
anger chilly, but with head hot and face red (Aur.). 

Complaints : when warm weather sets in, after cold 
days ; from cold drinks or ices in hot weather ; after 
taking cold or getting hot in summer ; from chilling 
when overheated, kicks the covers off ; from exposure 
to draft, cold wind (Aeon., Hep.) ; suppressed dis- 
charges, of menses, milk or eruption of acute exan- 
thema. 

One of the chief characteristics of Bryonia is, ag- 
gravation from any motion, and corresponding relief 
from absolute rest, either mental or physical. 

Desires things immediately which are not to be had, 
or which when offered are refused. 

Children dislike to be carried, or to be raised. 

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BRYONIA ALBA-( Continued ) . 

Delirium ; talks constantly about his business ; de- 
sire to get out of bed and go home (Act., Hyos.). 

Constant motion of left arm and leg (Apoc, Hell.). 

Patient cannot sit up from nausea and faintness. 

Great thirst for large quantities, at long intervals. 

Headache : when stooping, as if brain would burst 
through forehead ; from iro7iing (Sep.) ; on coughing ; 
in morning after rising or when first opening the eyes ; 
commencing in the morning, gradually increasing 
until evening; from constipation (Aloe, Colin., Op.). 

Pressure as from stone at pit of the stomach, re- 
lieved by eructation (Nux, Pul.). 

Constipation : inactive, no inclination ; stool large, 
hard, dark, dry, as if burnt ; on going to sea (Plat.). 

Diarrhoea : during a spell of hot weather ; bilious, 
acrid with soreness of anus ; like dirty water ; of un- 
digested food ; from cold drinks when overheated, 
from fruit or sour krout ; < in morning, on moving, 
even a hand or foot. 

Mammae heavy, of a stony hardness ; pale but hard ; 
hot and painful ; must support the breasts (Phyt). 

Cough : dry, spasmodic, with gagging and vomiting 
(Kali c.) ; with stitches in side of chest ; with head- 
ache, as if head would fly to pieces ; < after eating, 
drinking, entering a warm room, a deep inspiration. 

Relations. — Complementary : Alumina, Rhus. 

Similar : to Bell., Hep. for hasty speech and hasty 
drinking. 

To Ran. in pleuritic or rheumatic pains of chest. 

To Ptelia, aching, heaviness in hepatic region ; > 



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BRYONIA ALBA-( Continued ) . 

lying on r. side, greatly < lying on left side ; turning 
to the left causes a dragging sensation. 

After Bryonia: Alum., Kali c., Nux, Phos., Rhus, 
Sulph. 

Aggravation. — Motion, exertion, touch; cannot sit 
up, gets faint or sick or both ; warmth, warm food ; 
suppressed discharges of any kind. 

Amelioration. — Lying, especially on painful side 
(Ptel., Puis.) ; pressure ; rest ; cold, eating cold things. 

CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS. 

Night-blooming Cereus. Cactacecs. 

Sanguineous congestions in persons of plethoric 
habit (Aeon.) ; often resulting in hemorrhage ; sanguin- 
eous apoplexy. 

Fear of death ; believes the disease incurable (Ars.). 

Hemorrhage ; from nose, lungs, stomach, rectum, 
bladder (Crot, Mill., Phos.). 

Headache, pressing like a heavy weight on vertex 
(> by pressure, Meny.); climacteric (Glon., L,ach.). 

Headache and neuralgia ; congestive, periodic, right- 
sided ; severe, throbbing, pulsating pain. 

Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being 
twisted tighter and tighter. 

Constriction : of throat, chest, heart, bladder, rec- 
tum, uterus, vagina ; often caused or brought on by 
the slightest contact. 

Oppression of chest, as from a great weight ; as if 
an iron band prevented normal motion. 

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CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS-( Continued ) . 

Sensation of a cord tightly tied aronnd lower part 
of chest, marking attachment of diaphragm. 

Heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly by 
an iron hand ; as if bound, " had no room to beat." 

Pains everywhere ; darting, springing like chain 
lightning, and ending with a sharp, vise-like grip, only 
to be again renewed. 

Menstrual flow ceases when lying down (Bov., 
Caust). 

Palpitation : day and night ; worse when walking 
and lying on left side (Iyach.) ; at approach of menses. 

Fever paroxysm returns at 1 1 A. m. and 1 1 p. M. 

Relations. — Compare: Aeon., Dig., Gels., Kal., 
Lach., Tab. 

CALADIUM. 

American Arum. Aracece. 

Very sensitive to noise ; slightest noise startles 
from sleep (Asar., Nux, Taren.). 

Eructations, frequent, of very little wind, as if 
stomach were full of dry food. 

Impotence : with mental depression ; relaxed penis, 
with sexual desire and excitement (Lye, Sel.). 

No erection, even after caresses ; no emission, no 
orgasm during an embrace (Cal., Sel.). 

Pruritus vaginae ; induces onanism (Orig., Zinc.) ; 
during pregnancy ; with mucous discharge. 

Falls asleep during evening fever and wakes when it 
stops. 

Sweet sweat attracts the flies. 

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CAI^ADIUM— ( Continued) . 

Mosquito and insect bites burn and itch, intensely. 
Aversion to motion ; dreads to move (Bry.). 
Destroys craving for tobacco. 

CALCAREA ARSENICA. 

Arseniate of Lime. 

Great mental depression. 

The slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart 

(Lith. c). 

Rush of blood to head and left chest (Amyl., Glon.). 

Epilepsies, from valvular diseases of the heart. 

Complaints of drunkards, after abstaining ; craving 
for alcohol (Asar., Sul. ac). 

Complaints of fleshy women when approaching the 
menopause. 

Relations. — Compare : Con., Glon., Iyith. c, Puis., 
Nux. 

Follows well : after Conium, in lymphatic, psoric 
or tuberculous persons. 

CALCAREA OSTREARUM. 

Middle layer of Oyster Shell. Calciitm Carbonate. 

Iyeucophlegmatic, blond hair, light complexion, 
blue eyes, fair skin ; tendency to obesity in youth. 

Psoric constitutions ; pale, weak, timid, easily tired 
when walking. 

Disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldy. 

Children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat 
easily and take cold readily in consequence. 

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CAI.CAREA OSTREARUM- ( Continued ) . 

Large heads and abdomens ; f organelles and sutures 
open ; bones soft, develop very slowly. 

Curvature of bones, especially spine and long bones ; 
extremities crooked, deformed ; bones irregularly de- 
veloped. 

Head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting 
pillow far around (Sil., Sanic). 

Profuse perspiration, mostly on back of head and 
neck, or on chest and upper part of body (Sil.). 

Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic 
head sweats, and open fontanel les. 

During either sickness or convalescence, great long- 
ing for eggs ; craves indigestible things (Alum.) ; 
aversion to meat. 

Acidity of digestive tract : sour eructation, sour 
vomiting, sour stool ; sour odot of the whole body 
(Hep., Rheum). 

Girls who are fleshy, plethoric, and grow too rapidly. 

Menstruation too early, too profuse, too lojig lasting ; 
with subsequent amenorrhoea and chlorosis, with 
menses scanty or suppressed. 

Women : menses too early, too profuse ; feet habitu- 
ally cold and damp, as if they had on cold damp stock- 
ings ; continually cold in bed. 

The least mental excitement causes profuse return of 
menstrual flow (Sulph., Tub.). 

Fears she will lose her reason or that people will 
observe her mental confusion (Act.). 

Iyung diseases of tall, slender, rapidly growing 
youth ; upper third of right lung (Ars. — upper left, 



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CAI.CARKA OSTREARUM-(Cb»ft»«^). 

Myr., Sulph.) ; oftener the guide to the constitutional 
remedy than Phosphorus (compare, Tub.). 

Diseases : arising from defective assimilation ; imper- 
fect ossification; difficulty in learning to walk or 
stand ; children have no disposition to walk and will 
not try ; suppressed sweat. 

Rawness of soles of feet from perspiration (Graph., 
Sanic.) ; blisters and offensive foot sweat. 

Longing for fresh air (when in a room) which in- 
spires, benefits, strengthens (Puis., Sulph.). 

Coldness: general; of single parts (Kali bi.) ; head, 
stomach, abdomen, feet and legs ; aversion to cold 
open air, " goes right through her " ; sensitive to cold, 
damp air ; great liability to take cold (opposite of 
Sulph.). 

Sweat : of single parts ; head, scalp wet, cold ; nape 
of neck ; chest ; axillae ; sexual organs ; hands ; knees ; 
feet (Sep.). 

Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and 
painful to pressure. 

Uraemic or other diseases brought on by standing 
on cold, damp pavements, or working while standing 
in cold water ; modelers or workers in cold clay. 

Feels better in every way when constipated. 

Stool has to be removed mechanically (Aloe, Sanic, 
Sel., Sep., Sil.). 

Painless hoarseness, < in the morning. 

Desire to be magnetized (Phos.). 

Relations. — Complementary: to Bell., which is the 
acute of Calc. 

Calcarea acts best: before, Lye, Nux, Phos., Sil. 

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CALCAREA OSTREARIM-( Continued ) . 

It follows ; Nit. ac, Puis., Sulph. (especially if 
pupils are dilated) ; is followed by, Kali bi. in nasal 
catarrh. 

According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used 
before Nit. ac. and Sulph.; may produce unnecessary 
complications. 

In children it may be often repeated. 

In aged people should not be repeated ; especially 
if the first dose benefited, it will usually do harm. 

Aggravation. — Cold air; wet weather; cold water ; 
from washing (Ant. c.) ; morning ; during full moon. 

Amelioration. — Dry weather ; lying on painful side 
(Bry., Puis.). 

CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. 

Phosphate of Lime. Calcium Phosphate. 

For persons anaemic and dark complexion, dark 
hair and eyes ; thin spare subjects, instead of fat. 

During first and second dentition of scrofulous 
children ; diarrhoea and great flatulence. 

Children : emaciated, unable to stand ; slow in learn- 
ing to walk (Cal., Sil.) ; sunken, flabby abdomen. 

Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants (of 
urine, Hyos.). 

Rachitis : cranial bones thin a?td brittle ; f onta- 
nelles and sutures remain open so long, or close and re- 
open ; delayed or complicated teething. 

Spine weak, disposed to curvatures, especially to 
the left ; unable to support body ; neck weak, unable 
to support head (Abrot). 

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CAI.C ARE A PHOSPHORIC A— ( Continued ) . 

Girls at puberty, tall, growing rapidly ; tendency of 
bones to soften or spine to curve (Ther.). 

At puberty ; acne in ansemic girls with vertex 
headache and flatulent dyspepsia, > by eating. 

Ailments from grief, disappointed love (Aur., Ign., 
Phos. ac). 

Feels complaints more when thinking about them 
(Helon., Ox. ac). 

Involuntary sighing (Ign.). 

Non-union of bones ; promotes callous (Symp.). 

Rheumatism of cold weather ; getting well in spring 
and returning in autumn. 

Headache of school-girls (Nat. m., Psor.) ; diarrhoea. 

At every attempt to eat, colic pains in abdomen. 

Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms 
(Berb.) ; lack of animal heat ; cold sweat and general 
coldness of body. 

Relations. — Complementary : Ruta. 

Similar : to Carbo an., Cal. fluor., Calc, Fluor, ac, 
Kali phos.; to Psor., in debility remaining after acute 
diseases ; to Sil., but sweat of head is wanting. 

Acts best: before Iod., Psor., Sanic, Sulph.; after 
Ars., Iod., Tub. 

Aggravation. — Exposure to damp, cold, changeable 
weather ; east winds ; melting snozv ; mental exertion. 

Amelioration. — In summer ; warm, dry atmosphere. 



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Marigold. Composites. 

Traumatic affections : to secure union by first in- 
tention and prevent suppuration. 

In all cases of loss of soft parts when union cannot 
be affected by means of adhesive plaster. 

External wounds with or without loss of substance ; 
torn and jagged looking wounds ; post-surgical opera- 
tions ; to promote healthy granulation and prevent ex- 
cessive suppuration and disfiguring scars. 

Traumatic and idiopathic neuroma (Cepa) ; neuritis 
from lacerated wounds (Hyper.) ; exhausted from loss 
of blood and excessive pain. 

Rupture of muscles or tendons ; lacerations during 
labor ; wounds penetrating articulations with loss of 
synovial fluid. 

Wounds : with sudden pain during febrile heat ; 
constitutional tendency to erysipelas (Psor.) ; old, 
neglected, offensive ; threatening gangrene (Sal. ac). 

Ulcers : irritable, inflamed, sloughing, varicose ; 
painful as if beaten (Arn.) ; excessive secretion of pus. 

Calendula is almost specific for clean, surgical cuts 
or lacerated wounds, to prevent excessive suppuration. 

Relations. — Complementary : Hep., Sal. ac. 

Similar : to, Arn. in traumatism without laceration 
of soft tissue. 

Similar : to, Hyper, in injuries to parts rich in sen- 
tient nerves where pain is excessive and out of all pro- 
portion to injury. 

* Calendar the months; i. e., flowers all the year through, open- 
ing from 9 a. m. — 3 p. m. 

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CAI^BNOUI^A {Continued). 

Symp., Calc. p., for non-union of bones. 

Rhus, Ruta, strains or injuries of single muscles. 

Sal. ac., prevents excessive suppuration ; gangrene. 

Sulph. ac. in painful, gangrenous wounds ; said to 
destroy septic germs. 

Acts as well in potency as in tincture, applied locally, 
and may be administered internally at the same time. 



CAMPHORA. 

Camphor. Lauracece. 

Pain better while thinking of it (Hell. — worse, 
Cal. p., Helon., Ox. ac.) 

Persons physically and mentally weak and irritable. 

Exceedingly sensitive to cold air (Hep., Kali m., 
Psor.). 

Bad effects of shock from injury ; surface of body 
cold, face pale, blue, lips livid ; profound prostration. 

Surface cold to the touch yet cannot bear to be cov- 
ered ; throws off all coverings (Med., Sec). 

Entire body painfully sensitive to slightest touch. 

Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. 

Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea ; nose 
cold and pointed ; anxious and restless ; skin and breath 
cold (Ver., Jatr.). 

In first stages of cholera morbus and Asiatic cholera ; 
severe, long-lasting chill (Ver.). 

Great coldness of the surface with sudden and com- 
plete prostration of the vital force ; often a remedy in 
congestive chill ; pernicious intermittent (Ver.) ; pulse 
weak, extremely small, scarcely perceptible. 

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CAMPHOR A— ( Continued ) . 

Measles and scarlatina when eruption does not ap- 
pear ; with, pale or cold, blue, hippocratic face ; child 
will not be covered (Sec). 

All sequelae of measles. 

Relations. — Camphor antidotes nearly every vege- 
table medicine ; also tobacco, fruits containing prussic 
acid, poisonous mushrooms ; should not be allowed in 
the sick room in its crude form. 

Compare : Carbo veg., Opium, Verat, Sec. 

Amelioration. —When thinking of existing com- 
plaint ; warm air ; drinking cold water. 

Note for Thought. — All our progress as a school depends on 
the right view of the symptoms obtained by proving with Cam- 
phor or Opium. — Hering. 



CANNABIS INOICA. 

Indian Hemp. Cannabinecs. 

Very forgetful : forgets his last words and ideas ; 
begins a sentence, forgets what he intends to speak ; in- 
ability to recall any thought or event on account of 
other thoughts crowding his brain (Anac, L,ac c). 

Constantly theorizing. 

Ivaughs immoderately at every trifling word spoken 
to him. 

Full of fun and mischief, then perhaps moaning and 
crying. 

Great apprehension of approaching death. 

Delirium tremens ; excessive loquacity ; exaggera- 
tion of time and distance. 

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CAX1VABIS I1VOICA (Continued}. 

Time seems too long (Arg. n.) ; a few seconds seem 
ages. 

Distance seems immense ; a few rods seem miles. 

Sensation as if the calvarium was opening and shutt- 
ing (Act.). 

Sensation of swelling in the perineum or near the 
anus, as if sitting on a ball (with great quantities of 
ropy mucus in urine, Cinch.). 

Relation. — Compare : Bell., Hyos., Stram. 

CANNABIS SATIVA. 

Hemp. Cannabinece. 

Sensation as of drops of water failing on or from 
single parts ; on the head, from the anus, stomach, 
heart. 

Obstinate constipation, causing retention of the 
urine ; constriction of anus. 

Contraction of fingers after a sprain. 

Dislocation of patella on going up stairs. 

Dyspnoea or asthma, where the patient can only 
breathe by standing up. 

Choking in swallowing, things go down " the wrong 
way " (Anac). 

Acute, inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea (second 
stage, burning after urination, discharge thick, yel- 
low, pus-like, Cub.). 

Urethra very sensitive to touch or pressure ; cannot 
walk with legs close together, it hurts the urethra. 

Pain extending from orifice of urethra backward, 
burning-biting, posteriorily more sticking, while uri- 
nating. 

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CANNABIS SATFVA {Continued). 

Tearing pain along urethra in a zigzag direction. 
Relations. — Similar: to, Cantli., Caps., Gels., Petros. 
in early stages of specific urethritis. 



CANTHARIDES. 

Spanish Flies. Cantharidece. 

Oversensitiveness of all parts. 

Pain ; raw, sore, burning in every part of body, in- 
ternally and externally ; with extreme weakness. 

Hemorrhages from nose, mouth, intestines, genital 
and urinary organs. 

Disgust for everything ; drink, food, tobacco. 

Drinking even small quantities of water increases 
pain in the bladder. 

Constant urging to urinate, passing but a few drops 
at a time, which is mixed with blood (sudden desire 
to urinate and intense itching in urethra, Petros.). 

Intolerable urging, before, during, and after urina- 
tion ; violent pains in bladder. 

Burning, cutting pains in urethra during micturi- 
tion ; violent tenesmus and strangury. 

Stool : passage of white or pale, red, tough mucus, 
like scrapings from the intestines, with streaks of 
blood (Carb. ac, Colch.). 

Bloody, nocturnal emissions (L,ed., Mer., Petr.). 

Sexual desire : increased, both sexes ; preventing 
sleep ; violent priapism, with excessive pain (Pic. ac). 

Tenacious mucus in the air passages (Bov., Kali bi.); 
compare Cantharis if vesical symptoms correspond. 

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CANTMARIDES {Continued). 

Skin : vesicular erysipelas ; vesicles all over body 
which are sore and suppurating. 

Erythema from exposure to sun's rays (sunburn). 

The burning pain and intolerable urging to urinate, 
is the red strand of Cantharis in all inflammatory 
affections. 

Relations. — Similar: to, Apis, Ars., Equis., Mer. 

Burns before blisters form and when they have 
formed. If the skin be unbroken, apply an alcoholic 
solution of any potency and cover with cotton ; this 
will promptly relieve pain and often prevent vesica- 
tion. If skin be broken, use in boiled or distilled 
water, and in each case give potency internally. 



CAPSICUM. 

Cayenne Pepper. Solanacecz. 

Persons with light hair, blue eyes, nervous but 
stout and plethoric habit. 

Phlegmatic diathesis ; lack of reactive force, es- 
pecially with fat people, easily exhausted ; indolent, 
dreads any kind of exercise ; persons inclined to be 
jovial, yet get angry at trifles. 

Children; dread open air ; always chilly ; refractory, 
clumsy, fat, dirty, and disinclined to work or think. 

Desires to be let alone ; wants to lie down and sleep. 

Homesickness (of the indolent, melancholic), with 
red cheeks and sleeplessness. 

Constriction : in fauces ; throat ; nares ; chest ; 
bladder ; urethra ; rectum. 

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CAPSICUM— ( Co?itinued ) . 

Burning and smarting sensation, as from cayenne 
pepper, in throat and other parts, not > by heat. 

Tonsillitis : with burning, smarting pain ; intense 
soreness; constriction of throat with burning ; inflamed, 
dark red, swollen. 

The burning spasmodic constriction and other pains, 
worse between acts of deglutition (Ign.). 

Painful swelling behind the ear (mastoid), extremely 
sore and sensitive to touch. 

Every stool is followed by thirst and every drink 
by shuddering. 

Every chill is attended with thirst and every drink 
with shuddering. 

As the coldness of the body increases, so also does 
the ill-humor. 

Nervous, spasmodic cough ;< in sudden paroxysms ; 
as if head would fly to pieces. 

With every explosive cough (and at no other time) 
there escapes a volume of pungent, fetid air. 

Pain in distant parts on coughing (bladder, knees, 
legs, ears). 

Relations. — Compare : Apis, Bell., Bry., Calad., 
Puis. 

Cina follows well in intermittent fever. 

The constricting, burning, smarting pains differen- 
tiate from Apis and Belladonna. 



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CARBO AINPIMAUS. 

Animal Charcoal. 

Headache : as if a tornado in head ; as if head had 
been blown to pieces ; has to sit up at night and hold 
it together. 

Diseases of elderly persons with marked venous 
plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, and great debility. 

Circulation feeble, stagnated, and vital heat sinks 
to a minimum ; cyanosis (Ant. t, Carbo v.). 

Glands : indurated, swollen, painful ; in neck, ax- 
illae, groin, mammae ; pains lancinating, cutting-, burn- 
ing (Con.). 

Benign suppurations change into ichorous or malig- 
nant conditions. 

Easily strained from lifting, even small weights ; 
straining and overlifting easily produce great debility ; 
ankles turn when walking. 

Joints weak ; easily sprained by slight exertion 
(Led.). 

Aversion to open, dry, cold air. 

After appearance of menses so weak she can hardly 
speak (Alum., Coc); menses flow only in morning. 

Hearing confused ; cannot tell from what direction 
a sound comes. 

A stitching pain remains in chest after recovery 
from pleurisy (Ran. b.). 

Menstruation, leucorrhcea, diarrhoea are all exhaust- 
ing (Ars. — are all offensive, Psor.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Calc. phos. 

Similar: to, Bad., Brom., Carbo v., Phos., Sep., 
Sulph. 

Carbo animalis- is often useful after bad effects 

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CARBO A1VIM AMS— ( Continued ) . 

from spoiled fish and decayed vegetables (Carbo v., 
Cepa). 

Aggravation. — After shaving (> after, Brom.); 
slightest touch ; after midnight. 



CARBO VKGETABIMS. 

Vegetable Charcoal. 

For the bad effects of exhausting diseases, whether 
in young or old (Cinch., Phos., Psor.) ; cachectic per- 
sons whose vitality has become weakened or exhausted. 

Persons who have never fully recovered from the 
exhausting effects of some previous illness ; asthma 
dates from measles or pertussis of childhood ; indiges- 
tion from a drunken debauch ;, bad effects of a long 
ago injury ; has never recovered from effects of 
typhoid (Psor.). 

Ailments : from quinine, especially suppressed in- 
terim ttents ; abuse of mercury, salt, salt meats ; spoiled 
fish, meats or fats ; from getting overheated (Ant. c). 

Bad effects from loss of vital fluids (Caust.) ; hemor- 
rhage from any broken down condition of mucous 
membranes (Cinch., Phos.). 

Weakness of memory and slowness of thought. 

Bpistaxis in daily attacks, for weeks, worse from 
exertion ; face pale before as well as after a hemor- 
rhage. 

Hemorrhage from any mucous outlet ; in systems 
broken down, debilitated ; blood oozes from weakened 
tissues ; vital force exhausted. 

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CARBO VEGETABILIS-(G«A»«(?rf). 

Hippocratic face ; very pale, grayish-yellow, green- 
ish, cold with cold sweat ; after hemorrhage. 

Looseness of teeth, easily-bleeding gums. 

Patients crave things that make them sick ; old 
topers crave whiskey or brandy ; want clothing loose 
around abdomen. 

Weak digestion : simplest food disagrees ; excessive 
accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines < lying 
down ; after eating or drinking, sensation as if stom- 
ach would burst ; effects of a debauch, late suppers, 
rich food. 

Eructations give temporary relief. 

Diseases of the venous system predominate (Sulph.); 
symptoms of imperfect oxidation (Arg. nit.). 

Deficient capillary circulation causes blueness of 
skin and coldness of extremities ; vital powers nearly 
exhausted ; desire to be constantly fanned. 

Hoarseness : < evenings ; damp evening air ; warm, 
wet weather ; fails when exerted (< morning, Caust). 

Awakens often from cold limbs and suffers from 
cold knees at night (Apis). 

Frequent, involuntary, cadaverous-smelling stools, 
followed by burning ; soft stool voided with difficulty 
(Alum.). 

In the last stages of disease, with copious cold 
sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, this remedy 
may save a life. 

Relations. — Complementary : Kali carb. 

Want of susceptibility to well-selected remedies 
(Opium, Val.). 

Compare : Cinch., Plumb, in neglected pneumonia, 

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CARBO VEGETABIUS-(G?»tf«wrf). 

especially in u old topers" ;■ Ant. t. in threatened pa- 
ralysis from inability to expectorate loosened mucus. 

Opium : with lack of reaction after well-selected 
remedies fail to permanently improve (Val.). 

Phos. in easily bleeding ulcers. 

Puis., bad effects from fat food and pastry. 

Sulph., acrid-smelling menstrual flow and erysipelas 
of mammae. 

Aggravation. — From butter, pork, fat food ; abuse 
of quinine, bark and mercury ; from singing or read- 
ing aloud ; in warm, damp weather. 

Amelioration. — From eructation ; being fanned. 



CARBOLIC ACID. 

Glacial Carbolic Acid. 

The potencies are made with alcohol (an exception 
to the rule of preparing acids). 

Pains are terrible ; come suddenly, last a short time, 
disappear suddenly (Bell., Mag. p.). 

Profound prostration, collapse ; surface pale and 
bathed in cold sweat (Camph., Carbo v., Ver.). 

Physical exertion, even much walking, brings on 
abscess in some part, but generally in the r. ear. — R. 
T. Cooper. 

Dull, heavy, frontal headache, as if a rubber band 
were stretched tightly over the forehead, from temple 
to temple (Gels., Plat., Sulph.). 

When burns tend to ulceration and ichorous dis- 
charge. 

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CARBOLIC A.CW3— (Continued). 

Putrid discharges from mouth, nose, throat, nostrils, 
rectum and vagina (Anthr., Psor., Pyr.). 

Malignant scarlatina and variola (Am. a). 

Lacerated wounds with blunt instruments ; bones 
bare, crushed ; much sloughing of soft parts (Calend.). 

Longing for whiskey and tobacco (Asar., Carbo v.). 

Vomiting : of drunkards, in pregnancy, sea-sickness, 
cancer ; of dark, olive-green fluid (Pyr.). 

Dysentery : fluid mucus, like scrapings of mucous 
membranes and great tenesmus (Canth.) ; diarrhoea, 
stools thin, involuntary, black, of an intolerable odor. 

Constipation, with horribly offensive breath (Op., 
Psor.). 

Leucorrhcea : acrid, copious, fetid, green. 

Relations. — Compare : Ars., Kreos. in burns ; ulcers 
with unhealthy, offensive discharges, Gels., Mer., 
Sulph. 

Carbolic acid is antidoted by dilute cider vinegar, 
either externally, or internally when acid has been swal- 
lowed accidentally or taken for suicidal purposes. 



CAULOPHYLLUM. 

Blue Cohosh. Berberidacece. 

Especially suited to women ; ailments during preg- 
nancy, parturition, lactation. 

Rheumatism of women, especially of small joints 
(Act. s.) ; erratic pains changing place every few 
minutes (Puis.) ; painful stiffness of affected joints. 

Pains are intermittent, paroxysmal, spasmodic. 

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CAUlrOPHYlXrUM— ( Continued ) . 

Chorea, hysteria or epilepsy at puberty, during 
establishment of menstrual function (Actea). 

L,eucorrhcea : acrid, exhausting ; upper eyelids 
heavy, has to raise them with the fingers (Gels.) ; with 
" moth spots " on forehead (Sep.) ; in little girls 
(Calc.) ; preventing pregnancy. 

Habitual abortion from uterine debility (Alet. — from 
anaemia with profound melancholy, Helon.). 

Spasmodic rigid os, delays labor ; needle-like prick- 
ing pains in cervix. 

Labor pains short, irregular, spasmodic ; tormenting, 
useless pains in beginning of labor (Act.) ; no progress 
made. Will correct deranged vitality and produce 
efficient pains, if symptoms agree. 

Hemorrhage, after hasty labor ; want of tonicity ; 
passive, after abortion (Sec, Thlaspi). 

After pains : after long exhausting labor ; spasmodic, 
across lower abdomen ; extend into groins (in the 
shins, Carbo v., Coc). 

Lochia protracted ; great atony ; passive, oozing for 
days from relaxed vessels (Sec). 

Relations. — Similar: to, Act, Bell., I4I., Puis., 
Sec, Thlas., Vib. 

Similar : to, labor pains of Puis., but mental condi- 
tion opposite. 

Similar : to, Sep., " moth patches " and reflex symp- 
toms from uterine irregularities. 



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CAUSTICUM. 

HahnemanrC s. Tinctura acris sine Kali. 

Adapted to persons with dark hair and rigid fibre ; 
weakly, psoric, with excessively yellow, sallow com- 
plexion ; subject to affections of respiratory and uri- 
nary tracts. 

Children with dark hair and eyes, delicate, sensi- 
tive ; skin prone to intertrigo during dentition (L/yc), 
or convulsions with eruption of teeth (Stan.). 

Disturbed functional activity of brain and spinal 
cord, from exhausting disease or severe mental shock, 
resulting in paralysis. 

Rawness or soreness: of scalp, throat, respiratory 
tract, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina, uterus (as if 
bruised, Arm; as if sprained, Rhus). 

Melancholy mood : sad, hopeless ; from care, grief, 
sorrow ; with weeping, " the least thing makes the 
child cry." 

Intense sympathy for sufferings of others. 

Ailments : from long-lasting grief and sorrow (Phos. 
ac.) ; from loss of sleep, night watching (Coc, Ign.) ; 
from sudden emotions, fear, fright, joy (Coff., Gels.) ; 
from anger or vexation ; from suppressed eruptions. 

Children slow in learning to walk (Cal. p.). 

Unsteady walking and easy falling of little children. 

Constipation : frequent, ineffectual desire (Nux) ; 
stool passes better wheii person is standing ; impeded 
by hemorrhoids ; tough and shining, like grease ; in 
children with nocturnal enuresis. 

Urine involuntary : when coughing, sneezing, blow- 
ing the nose (Puis., Squil., Ver.). 



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CAUSTICUM— {Continued ) . 

Cough : with rawness and soreness in chest ; with 
inability to expectorate, sputa must be swallowed 
(Arn., Kali c.) ; relieved by swallow of cold water ; 
on expiration (Aeon.) ; with pain in hips.; remaining 
after pertussis ; with expectoration chiefly at night. 

Hoarseness, with rawness and aphonia < in the 
morning (< in the evening, Carbo v., Phos.). 

At night, unable to get an easy position or lie still 
a moment (Hup., Rhus). 

Must move constantly, but motion does not relieve. 

Cannot cover too warmly, but warmth does not >. 

Faint-like sinking of strength ; weakness and 
trembling. 

Cicatrices, especially burns, scalds, freshen up, be- 
come sore again ; old injuries re-open ; patients say 
" they never have been well since, that burn." 

Menses : too early ; too feeble ; only during the day ; 
cease on lying down. 

Paralysis: of single parts; vocal organs, tongue, 
eyelids, face, extremities, bladder ; generally of right 
side ; from exposure to cold wind or draft ; after 
typhoid, typhus or diphtheria ; gradually appearing. 

Drooping of upper eyelids ; cannot keep them open 
(Caul., Gels., Graph. — of both lids, Sep.). 

Rheumatic affections, with contraction of the flex- 
ors and stiffness of the joints ; tension and shortening 
of muscles (Am. m., Cimex, Guaiac, Nat). 

Warts : large, jagged, often pedunculated ; bleed- 
ing easily, exuding moisture ; small, all over the body ; 
on eyelids, face ; on the nose. 



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CAUSTICUM— ( Continued ) . 

Patient improves for a time then comes to a " stand- 
still" (Psor., Snlph.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Carbo veg., Petros. 

Incompatible : Phos. Must not be used before or 
after Phos., always disagrees ; the Acids ; Coffea. 

Compare : Arm, must swallow mucus ; Gels., Graph., 
Sep. in ptosis ; hoarseness, Rumex and Carbo v. when 
< changes to evening ; Sulph. in chronic aphonia. 

Causticum antidotes paralysis from lead poisoning 
(bad effects of holding type in mouth of compositors), 
and abuse of Merc, or Sulph. in scabies. 

It affects the right side most prominently. 

Aggravation. — In clear, fine weather; coming from 
the air into a warm room (Bry.); cold air, especially 
draft of cold air ; on becoming cold ; from getting 
wet or bathing. 

Amelioration. — In damp, wet, weather ; warm air. 



CHAMOMIULA. 

Matricaria Chamomilla. Composites. 

Persons, especially children, with light-brown hair, 
nervous, excitable temperament ; oversensitive from 
use or abuse of coffee or narcotics. 

Children, new-born and during period of dentition. 

Peevish, irritable, oversensitive to pain, driven to de- 
spair (Coff.); snappish, cannot return a civil answer. 

Child exceedingly irritable, fretful; quiet only 
when carried; impatient, wants this or that and be- 
comes angry when refused, or, when offered, petulently 

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CHAMOMILLA-(C^/m^ ) . 

rejects it (Bry., Cina, Kreos.); "too ugly to live;" 
cross, spiteful. 

Piteous moaning of child because he cannot have 
what he wants ; whining restlessness. 

Patient cannot endure any one near him ; is cross, 
cannot bear to be spoken to (Sil.) ; averse to talking, 
answers peevishly. 

Complaints from anger, especially chill and fever. 

Pain : seems unendurable, drives to despair ; < by 
heat ; < evening before midnight ; with heat, thirst 
and fainting ; with numbness of affected part ; eructa- 
tions < . 

One cheek red and hot the other pale and cold. 

Oversensitive to open air ; great aversion to wind, 
especially about ears. 

Toothache if anything warm, is taken into the 
mouth (Bis., Bry., Coff.); on entering a warm room ; 
in bed ; from coffee ; during menses or pregnancy. 

Labor pains : spasmodic, distressing, wants to get 
away from them ; tearing down the legs ; press upward. 

Diarrhoea: from cold, anger or chagrin; during 
dentition; after tobacco; in child-bed; from down- 
ward motion (Bor., Sanic). 

Stool green, watery, corroding, like chopped eggs 
and spinach ; hot, very offensive, like rotten eggs. 

Nipples inflamed, tender to touch (Helon., Phyt); 
infant's breasts tender to touch. 

Milk runs out in nursing women (runs out after 
weaning, Con.). 

Convulsions of children from nursing, after a fit of 
anger in mother (Nux — after fright in mother, Op.). 

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CHAMOMILLA-( Continued ) . 

Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at 
night, compel him to walk about (Rhus). 

Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Caust, Op.). 

Burning of soles at night, puts feet out of bed 
(Puis., Med., Sulph.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Bell, in diseases of 
children, cranial nerves ; Cham., abdominal nerves. 

In cases spoiled by the use of opium or morphine 
in complaints of children. 

Compare : Bell., Bor., Bry., Coff., Puis., Sulph. 

Mental calmness contra-indicates Chamomilla. 

Aggravation. — By heat; anger; evening, before 
midnight ; open air ; in the wind ; eructations. 

Amelioration. — From being carried ; fasting ; warm, 
wet weather. 



CHELIDONIUM MA JUS. 

Celandine. Papaveracecz. 

Persons of light complexion, blondes ; thin, spare, 
irritable ; subject to hepatic, gastric and abdominal 
complaints (Pod.) ; every age, sex and temperament. 

Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of 
right scapula (Kali c, Mer. — under the left, Chenop. 
g., Sang.). 

Ailments : brought on or renewed by change of 
weather (Mer.) ; all lessen after dinner. 

Tongue coated thickly yellow, with red edge, show- 
ing imprint of teeth (Pod. — large, flabby, with imprint 
of teeth, Mer.). 

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CHBUDONIUM MA JUS— {Continued). 

Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling 
stomach will not retain it (Ars., Case). 

Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side), with excess- 
ive lachrymation : tears fairly gush out (Rhus). 

Constipation ; stool, hard, round balls like sheep's 
dung (Op., Plumb.) ; alternate constipation and diar- 
rhoea. 

Diarrhoea : at night ; slimy, light-gray ; bright-yel- 
lowish ; brown or white, watery, pasty ; involuntary. 

Face, forehead, nose, cheeks remarkably yellow. 

Yellow-gray color of the skin ; wilted skin; of the 
palms of hands (Sep.). 

Hepatic diseases ; jaundice, pain in right shoulder. 

Pneumonia of r. lung, liver complications (Mer.). 

Spasmodic cough ; small lumps of mucus fly from 
mouth when coughing (Bad., Kali a). 

Affects right side most ; r. eye, r. lung, r. hypo- 
chondrium and abdomen, r. hip and leg ; right foot 
cold as ice, left natural (L,yc). 

Old, putrid, spreading ulcers, with a history of liver 
disease, or of a tubercular diathesis. 

Gall-stones, with pain under the right shoulder- 
blade (terrible attacks of gall-stone colic, Card. m.). 

Relations. — Chel. antidotes the abuse of Bry., espe- 
cially in hepatic complaints. 

Compare : Aeon., Bry., L,yc., Mer., Nux, Sang., 
Sep., Sulph. 

Ars., L,yc. and Sulph. follow well, and will often be 
required to complete the cure. 



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CICUTA \IROSA. 

Water Hemlock. Umbelliferce. 

Women subject to epileptic and choreic convul- 
sions ; spasms of teething children, or from worms. 

Convulsions : violent, with frightful distortions of 
limbs and whole body ; with loss of consciousness ; 
opisthotonos ; renewed from slightest touch, noise or 
jar. 

Puerpeial convulsions : frequent suspension of 
breathing for a few moments, as if dead ; upper part 
of the body most affected ; continue after delivery. 

Epilepsy : with swelling of the stomach, as from 
violent spasms of the diaphragm ; screaming ; red or 
bluish face ; lockjaw, loss of consciousness and dis- 
tortion of the limbs ; frequent during the night ; re- 
curring, first at short, then at long intervals. 

When reading, the letters seem to turn, go up or 
down or disappear (Coc). 

During dentition, grinding of the teeth or gums ; 
compression of the jaws as in lockjaw. 

Abnormal appetite for chalk and indigestible things ; 
for coal or charcoal ; child eats them with apparent 
relish (Alum., Psor.). 

Suffer violent shocks through head, stomach, arms, 
legs, which cause jerkings of the parts ; head hot. 

Injurious chronic effects from concussions of the 
brain and spine, especially spasms ; trismus and 
tetanus from getting splinters into flesh (Hyper.). 

Pustules which run together, forming thick, yellow 
scabs, on head and face. Sycosis menti. 

Eczema : no itching ; exudation forms into a hard 
lemon-colored crust. 

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CICUTA TIROS A— {Continued ~) . 

Brain disease from suppressed eruptions. 
Relations. — Compare : Hydr. ac., Hyper., Nux, 
Strych. 

Aggravation. — From tobacco smoke (Ign.) ; touch. 



CINA. 

Worm Seed. Composite. 

Adapted to children with dark hair, very cross, irri- 
table, ill-humored, want to be carried, but carrying 
gives no relief ; does not want to be touched ; cannot 
bear you to come near it ; averse to caresses ; desires 
many things, but rejects everything offered (compare, 
Ant. t, Bry., Cham., Staph.). 

Constantly digging and boring- at the nose ; picks 
the nose all the time ; itching of nose ; rubs nose on 
pillow, or on shoulder of nurse (Mar. v.). 

Children, suffering from worms ; pitiful weeping 
when awake, starts and screams during sleep ; grind- 
ing of teeth (Cic, Spig.) ; ascarides (Mar. v.). 

Face is pale ; sickly white and bluish appearance 
around mouth ; sickly, with dark rings under the 
eyes ; one cheek red the other pale (Cham.). 

Canine hunger : hungry soon after a full meal ; 
craving for sweets and different things ; refuses 
mother's milk. 

Urine ; turbid when passed, turns milky and semi- 
solid after standing ; white and turbid ; involuntary. 

Cough : dry with sneezing ; spasmodic, gagging in 
the morning ; periodic, returning spring and fall. 

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CI1VA — ( Continued ) . 

Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing 
on a paroxysm of coughing (Bry.). 

Relations. — Compare : Ant. a, Ant. t, Bry., Cham., 
Kreos., Sil., Staph., in irritability of children. 

In pertussis, after Drosera has relieved the severe 
symptoms. 

Has cured aphonia from exposure when Aeon., 
Phos. and Spong. had failed. 

Is frequently to be thought of, in children, as an 
epidemic remedy, when adults require other drugs. 

Santonine sometimes cures in worm affections when 
Cina seems indicated, but fails (Mar. v., Spig.). 



ci]>*cmo:na. 

Peruvian Bark. Rubiacece : 

For stout, swarthy persons ; for systems, once ro- 
bust, which have become debilitated, "broken down " 
from exhausting discharges (Carbo v.). 

Apathetic, indifferent, taciturn (Phos. ac.) ; despond- 
ent, gloomy, has no desire to live, but lacks courage 
to commit suicide. 

Ailments : from loss of vital fluids, especially 
hemorrhages, excessive lactation, diarrhoea, snppura- 
^<?/z(Chin. s.) ; of malarial origin, with marked periodi- 
city ; return every other day. 

After climacteric, with profuse hemorrhages ; acute 
diseases often result in dropsy. 

Pains : drawing or tearing ; in every joint, all the 
bones. Periosteum, as if strained, sore all over ; 

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CI1VCHONA— ( Continued ) . 

obliged to move limbs frequently, as motion gives 
relief ; renewed by contact, and then gradually in- 
crease to a great height. 

Headache : as if the skull would burst ; intense 
throbbing of head and carotids, face flushed ; from 
occiput over whole head ; < sitting or lying, must 
stand or walk ; after hemorrhage or sexual excesses. 

Face pale, hippocratic ; eyes sunken and surrounded 
by blue margins ; pale, sickly expression as after ex- 
cesses ; toothache while nursing the child. 

Excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels ; fermen- 
tation, borborygmus, belching gives no relief (belch- 
ing relieves, Carbo v.) ; < after eating fruit (Puis.). 

Colic : at a certain hour each day ; periodical, from 
gall-stones (Card, m.) ; worse at night and after eat- 
ing ; better bending double (Col.). 

Great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise ; 
sensitive to touch, to pain, to drafts of air ; entire 
nervous system extremely sensitive. 

Unrefreshing sleep or constant sopor ; < after 3 
A. M.; wakens early. 

Hemorrhages : of mouth, nose, bowels or uterus ; 
long continued ; longing for sour things. 

Disposition to hemorrhage from every orifice of the 
body, with ringing in ears, fainting, loss of sight, gen- 
eral coldness, sometimes convulsions (Fer., Phos.). 

Pains are < by slightest touch, but > by hard 
pressure (Caps., Plumb.). 

One hand icy cold, the other warm (Dig., Ipec, 
Puis.). 

Intermittent fever : paroxysm anticipates from two 

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CmCMON A— ( Continued ) . 

to three hours each attack (Chin, s.) ; returns every 
seven or fourteen days ; never at night ; sweats pro- 
fusely all over on being covered, or during sleep 
(Con.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Ferrum. 

Follows well : Cal. p. in hydrocephaloid. 

Compare : Chin. s. in intermittent fever, anticipat- 
ing type. 

Incompatible : after, Dig. , Sel. 

Is useful in bad effects from excessive tea drinking 
or abuse of chamomile tea, when hemorrhage results. 

Aggravation. — From slightest touch; draft of air ; 
every other day ; mental emotions ; loss of vital fluids. 

Amelioration. — Hard pressure ; bending double. 



COCA. 

Erythroxylon Coca. Linece. 

For persons who are wearing out under the physi- 
cal and mental strain of a busy life ; who suffer from 
exhausted nerves and brains (compare, Fluor, ac). 

Melancholy, from nervous exhaustion; bashful, 
timid, ill at ease in society. 

Sad, irritable ; delights in solitude and obscurity. 

Ivonging for alcoholic liquors and tobacco ; for the 
accustomed stimulants. 

Want of breath : in those engaged in athletic sports ; 
shortness of breath, in old people ; in those who use 
tobacco and whiskey to excess. 

Hemoptysis, with oppression of chest and dyspnoea. 

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COCA — ( Contin ned ) . 

Sleepy, but can find no rest anywhere. 

Violent palpitation : from incarcerated flatus (Arg. 
n., Nux) ; from overexertion ; from heart strain (Arn., 
Bor., Caust). 

Bad effects : from mountain climbing or ballooning 
(Ars.) ; of stimulants, alcohol, tobacco. 

Prevents caries of teeth. 

Relations. — Compare: patient desires light and 
company, Stram. ; desires darkness and solitude, Coca. 

Was first used as a tobacco antidote. 



COCCUULJS. 

Cocculus Indians. Menispermacece. 

For women and children with light hair and eyes, 
who suffer severely during menstruation and preg- 
nancy ; unmarried and childless women. 

Adapted to book-worms; sensitive, romantic girls 
with irregular menstruation ; rakes, onanists and per- 
sons debilitated by sexual excesses. 

Nausea or vomiting from riding in carriage, boat or 
railroad car (Arn., Nux m.), or evert looking at a boat 
in motion ; sea-sickness ; car-sickness. 

Headache : in nape and occiput ; extending to the 
spine ; as if tightly bound by a cord ; with nausea, as 
if at sea ; at each menstrual period ; < lying on back 
of head. 

Sick-headache from carriage, boat or train riding. 

Diseases peculiar to drunkards. 

Iyoss of appetite, with metallic taste (Mer.). 

Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n., Can. I.). 

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COCCUIAJS— (Continued ). 

Great lassitude of the whole body ; it requires exer- 
tion to stand firmly ; feels too weak to talk loudly. 

Bad effects : from loss of sleep, mental excitement 
and night watching ; feel weak if they lose but one 
hour's sleep ; convulsions after loss of sleep ; of anger 
and grief. 

Trembling of arms and legs ; from excitement, ex- 
ertion or pain. 

Vertigo, as if intoxicated upon rising in bed ; or by 
motion of the carriage (Bry.). 

Sensation : in abdomen of cutting and rubbing on 
every movement, as of sharp stones ; of hollowness in 
head and other parts (Ign.). 

During the effort to menstruate she is so weak she 
is scarcely able to stand from weakness of lower limbs 
(Alum., Carbo an.) ; after each period' hemorrhoids. 

Leucorrhcea in place of menses, or between periods 
(Iod., Xan.) ; like the washings of meat ; like serum, 
ichorous, bloody ; during pregnancy. 

Cannot bear contradiction ; easily offended ; every 
trifle makes him angry ; speaks hastily (Anac). 

When fever assumes a slow, "sneaking," nervous 
form, with vertigo ; with disposition to anger. 

Relations. — Compare : Ign. and Nux, in chorea 
and paralytic symptoms ; Ant. t., in sweat of affected 
parts. 

Has cured umbilical hernia with obstinate consti- 
pation, after Nux failed. 

Aggravation. — Eating, drinking, sleeping, smok- 
ing, talking ; carriage riding, motion or swing of 
slrp ; rising up during pregnancy. 

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COFFEA CRCDA. 



Coffee. 



Rubiacece. 



Tall, lean, stooping persons, dark complexion, 
sanguine choleric temperament. 

Oversensitiveness ; all the senses more acnte, sight, 
hearing, smell, taste, tonch (Bell., Cham., Opinm). 

Unusual activity of mind and body. 

Fnll of ideas ; qnick to act, no sleep on this acconnt. 

Ailments: the bad effects of sudden emotions or 
pleasurable surprises (Caust. — exciting or bad news, 
Gels.) ; weeping from delight ; alternate laughing and 
weeping. 

Pains are felt intensely ; seem almost insupportable, 
driving patient to despair (Aeon., Cham.) ; tossing 
about in anguish. 

Sleepless, wide-awake condition ; impossible to close 
the eyes ; physical excitement through mental exalta- 
tion. (Compare, Senecio, for sleeplessness from pro- 
lapsus, uterine irritation, during climacteric). 

Headache : from over-mental exertion, thinking, 
talking ; one-sided, as from a nail driven into the brain 
(Ign., Nux) ; as if brain were torn or dashed to pieces ; 
worse in open air. 

Hasty eating and drinking (Bell., Hep.). 

Toothache ; intermittent, jerking, relieved by hold- 
ing ice-water in the mouth, but returns when water 
becomes warm (Bis., Bry., Puis., Caust, Sep., Nat. s.). 

Relations. — Compare : Aeon., Cham., Ign., Sulph. 

Incompatible : Canth., Caust., Coc, Ign. 

Aggravation. — Sudden mental emotion ; excessive 
joy ; cold, open air ; narcotic medicines. 



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COI^CMICUM AUTUMNALE. 

Meadow Saffron. Liliacece. 

Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis ; per- 
sons of robust vigorous constitution ; diseases of old 
people. 

External impressions, light, noise, strong odors, con- 
tact, bad manners, make him almost beside himself 
(Nux); his sufferings seem intolerable. 

Ailments : from grief or misdeeds of others (Staph.). 

Pains are drawing, tearing, pressing ; light or super- 
ficial during warm weather ; affect the bones and 
deeper tissues, when air is cold ; pains go from left to 
right (L,ach.). 

Smell painfully acute ; nausea and f aintness from 
the odor of cooking food, especially fish, eggs or fat 
meat (Ars., Sep.) ; bad effects from night watching 
(Coc). 

Aversion to food ; loathing even the sight or still 
more the smell of it. 

The abdomen is immensely distended with gas, feel- 
ing as if it would burst. 

Burning, or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen. 

Autumnal dysentery, discharges from bowels con- 
tain white shreddy particles in large quantities ; white 
mucus; "scrapings of intestines" (Canth., Carb. ac). 

Urine : dark, scanty or suppressed ; in drops, with 
white sediment ; bloody, brown, black, inky ; contains 
clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar. 

Affected parts very sensitive to contact and motion. 

Arthritic pains in joints ; patient screams with pain 
on touching a joint or stubbing a toe. 

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COI^CMICUM AOTUMNALE-(GwiA»wflf ) . 

Relations. — Compare : Bry. in rheumatic gout with 
serous effusions ; in rheumatism in warm weather. 

Often cures in dropsy after Apis and Arsen. fail. 

Aggravation. — Mental emotion or exhaustion ; ef- 
fects of hard study ; odor of cooking food. 

Motion : if the patient lies perfectly still, the dispo- 
sition to vomit is less urgent. Every motion renews 
it (Bry.). 

COLLINSONU CANADENSIS. 

Stone Root. Labiates. 

Pelvic and portal congestion resulting in dysmenor- 
rhcea and hemorrhoids. 

Congestion of pelvic viscera,' with hemorrhoids, 
especially in latter months of pregnancy. 

Dropsy from cardiac disease. 

Palpitation ; in patients subject to piles and indi- 
gestion ; heart's action persistently rapid but weak. . 

After heart is relieved old piles reappear, or sup- 
pressed menses return. 

Chronic, painful, bleeding piles ; sensation as if 
sticks, sand or gravel had lodged in rectum (^Esc). 

Hemorrhoidal dysentery with tenesmus. 

Alternate constipation and diarrhoea ; congestive 
inertia of lower bowel ; stools sluggish and hard with 
pain and great flatulence. Constipation. 

Pruritus in pregnancy with hemorrhoids ; unable to 
lie down. 

Relations. — In heart disease complicated with 

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COUrlNSONIA CANADENSIS-(G«//wV). 

hemorrhoids consult Collinsonia when Cac., Dig. and 
other remedies fail. 

Has cured colic after Col. and Nux had failed. 

Compare ; ^Esc, Aloe, Cham., Nux, Sulph. 

Aggravation. — The slightest mental emotion or ex- 
citement aggravates the symptoms (Arg. n.). 



COLOCYNTH. 

Squirting Cucumber. Cucurbitacece. 

Agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend 
double, with restlessness, twisting and turning to ob- 
tain relief ; > by hard pressure (> by heat, Mag. p.). 

Pains : are worse after eating or drinking ; compel 
patient to bend double (Mag. p. — < by bending double, 
Dios.); menses, suppressed by chagrin, colic pains. 

Extremely irritable, impatient ; becomes angry or 
offended on being questioned. 

Irritable ; throws things out of his hands. 

Affections from anger, with indignation — colic, 
vomiting, diarrhoea and suppression of menses 
(Cham., Staph.). 

Vertigo : when quickly turning head, especially to 
the left, as if he would fall ; from stimulants. 

Sciatica : crampy pain in hip as though screwed in 
a vise ; lies upon affected side. 

Shooting pain, like lightning-shocks, down the 
whole limb, left hip, left thigh, left knee, into popli- 
teal fossa. 



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COI^OCYIVTH— ( Continued ) . 

Relations. — Complementary: Merc, in dysentery, 
with great tenesmus. 

Compare : Gnaph. intense pain along right sciatic 
nerve, darting, cutting, from right hip joint down to 
foot ; < lying down, motion, stepping ; > by sitting. 

Compare with Staph, in ovarian or other diseases 
from bad effects of anger, reserved indignation or 
silent grief. 

Aggravation. — Anger and indignation ; mortifica- 
tion caused by offense (Staph., Lye.) ; cheese < colic. 

Amelioration. — From doubling up ; hard pressure. 



CONIUM MACULATUM. 

Poison Hemlock. Umbelliferce. 

The " Balm of Gilead " for diseases of old maids 
and women during and after climacteric. 

Especially for diseases of old men ; old maids ; old 
bachelors ; with rigid muscular fibre ; persons with 
light hair who are easily excited ; strong persons of 
sedentary habits. 

Debility of old people ; complaints caused by a 
blow or fall ; cancerous and scrofulous persons with 
enlarged glands ; rigid fibre. 

No inclination for business or study ; indolent, in- 
different, takes no interest in anything. 

Memory weak, unable to sustain any mental effort. 

Morose ; easily vexed ; domineering, quarrelsome, 
scolds, will not bear contradiction (Aur.) ; excitement 
of any kind causes mental depression. 

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CONIUM MACrLATUM-(C^««^). 

Dreads being alone, yet avoids society (Kali c, Lye). 

Glandular indurations of stony hardness ; of mammae 
and testicles in persons of cancerous tendency ; after 
bruises and injuries of glands (compare, Aster, rub.). 

Breasts sore, hard and painful before and during 
menstruation (Lac c, Kali c). 

Vertigo : especially when lying down or turning in 
bed ; moving the head slightly, or even the eyes ; must 
keep head perfectly still ; on turning the head to the 
left (Col.); of old people ; with ovarian and uterine 
complaints. 

Cough ; in spasmodic paroxysms caused by dry spot 
in larynx (in throat, Act.); with itching in chest and 
throat (Iod.); worse at night, when lying down y and 
during pregnancy (Caust, Kali br.). 

Great difficulty in voiding urine ; flow intermits, 
then flows again ; prostatic or uterine affections. 

Menses : feeble, suppressed ; too late, scanty, of 
short duration ; with rash of small red pimples over 
body which ceases with the flow (Dul.); stopped by 
taking cold ; by putting hands in cold water (Lac d.). 

Leucorrhcea : ten days after menses (Bor., Bov.); 
acrid ; bloody ; milky ; profuse ; thick ; intermits. 

Bad effects : of suppressed sexual desire, or sup- 
pressed menses ; non-gratification of sexual instinct, 
or from excessive indulgence. 

. Aversion to light without inflammation of eyes ; 
worse from using eyes in artificial light ; often the stu- 
dents' remedy for night work ; intense photophobia 
(Psor.). 



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COIVIUM MACULATOM- (Continued}. 

Sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even 
when closing the eyes (Cinch.). 

Relations. — Patients requiring Conium often im- 
prove from wine or stimulants, though persons sus- 
ceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants 
when in health. 

Compare : Arn., Rhus in contusions ; Ars., Aster. 
in cancer; Cal., Psor. in glandular swellings. 

Is followed well : by Psor. in tumors of mammae 
with threatening malignancy. 

Aggravation. — At night ; lying down ; turning or 
rising up, in bed ; celibacy. 

CROCUS SATIVUS. 

Saffron. , Iridacece. 

Frequent and extreme changes in sensations; 

sudden, from the greatest hilarity to the deepest de- 
spondency (Ign., Nux m.). 

Excessively happy, affectionate, wants to kiss every- 
body ; the next moment in a 7 r age. 

Hemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, 
clotted, forming into long black strings hanging from 
the bleeding surface (Elaps). 

Headache ; during climacteric, throbbing, pulsating, 
< during two or three days of accustomed menstrual 
flow ; nervous or menstrual headache before, during, 
or after flow (L,ach., I,il., Sep.). 

Byes : sensation, as if room were filled with smoke*; 
as if had been weeping ; as of cold wind blowing 
across the eyes ; closing lids tightly gives > . 

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CROCUS SATIVUS— {Continued). 

. Nosebleed ; black, tenacious, stringy, every drop 
can be turned into a thread ; with cold sweat in large 
drops on forehead (cold sweat, but wants to be fanned ; 
with bright red blood, Carbo veg.); in children who 
develop too rapidly (Cal., Phos.). 

Dysmenorrhcea : flow black, stringy, clotted (Ust). 

Sensation as if something alive were moving in the 
stomach, abdomen, uterus, arms or other parts of the 
body (Sab., Thuja, Sulph.); with nausea and faintness. 

Chorea and hysteria with great hilarity, singing 
and dancing (Tar.); alternating with melancholy and 
rage. 

Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single 
sets of muscles (Agar., Ign., Zinc). 

Relation. — Nux, Puis, or Sulph. follows Crocus 
well in nearly all complaints. 

Compare : In menstrual derangements (Ust.). 



CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 

Poison of Rattlesnake. Crotalidce. 

Is indicated in strumous, debilitated, hemorrhagic, 
broken-down constitutions ; during zymotic diseases ; 
in inebriates ; tendency to carbuncles or blood boils 
(Anthr.). 

Diseases caused by a previous low state of the 
system ; low septic, typhoid or malarial fever ; chronic 
alcoholism ; exhausted vital force ; genuine collapse. 

Apoplexy ; apoplectic convulsions in inebriates, 
hemorrhagic or broken down constitutions. 

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CROT ALUS HORRIDUS- ( Continued ) . 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; blood flows from eyes, ears, 
nose, and every orifice of the body ; bloody sweat. 

Yellow color of conjunctiva ; clears np vision after 
keratitis, or kerato-iritis. 

Malignant janndice ; hematic rather than hepatic. 

Purpura hemorrhagica ; comes on suddenly from 
all orifices, skin, nails, gums. 

Tongue firey red, smooth and polished (Pyr.) ; in- 
tensely swollen. 

Malignant diphtheria or scarlatina ; oedema or gan- 
grene of fauces or tonsils ; pain < from empty swal- 
lowing ; if vomiting or diarrhoea come on. 

Prostration of vital force ; pulse scarcely felt ; blood- 
poisoning (Pyr.). 

Vomiting : bilious, with anxiety and weak pulse ; 
every month after menstruation ; cannot lie on r. side 
or back without instantly producing dark, green 
vomiting ; black or coffee ground, of yellow fever. 

Diarrhoea ; stools black, thin, like coffee-grounds ; 
offensive ; from noxious effluvia or septic matters in 
food or drinks; from "high game" (Pyr.); during 
yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, typhus. 

Intestinal hemorrhage when occurring in typical, 
septic, or zymotic disease ; blood dark, fluid, non- 
coagulable. 

Dissecting wounds ; insect stings ; bad effects of 
vaccination. 

Vicarious menstruation ; in debilitated constitu- 
tions (Dig., Phos.). 

Menopause ; intense flushings and drenching per- 
spirations ; faintness and sinking at stomach ; pro- 

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CROTAI^US HORRIDrS-(tow^). 

longed metrorrhagia, dark, fluid, offensive ; profound 
anaemia. 

Malignant diseases of uterus, great tendency to 
hemorrhage, blood dark, fluid, offensive. 

Relations. — Compare : Elaps, I^ach., Naja, Pyr. 

In Lach. skin cold and clammy ; Crot. cold and 
dry ; Blaps, affections of r. lung, expectoration of 
black blood. 



CROTON TIGUUM . 

Croton Oil Seeds. Euphorbiacece. 

Affects mucous membrane of intestinal tract, pro- 
ducing transudation of watery portions of blood, a 
copious, watery diarrhoea (Ver.), and develops an acute 
eczema over whole body (Rhus). 

The bowels are moved as if by spasmodic jerks, 
" coming out like a shot " (Gamb.); as soon as patient 
eats, drinks, or even while eating ; yellow watery 
stool. 

Constant urging to stool followed by sudden evacua- 
tion, which is shot out of the rectum (Gamb., Grat, 
Pod., Thuja). 

Swashing sensation in intestines, as from water, be- 
fore stool (rumbling before stool, Aloe). 

Drawing pain through the chest from breast to 
scapula, of same side every time the child nurses ; 
nipple very sore. 

Intense itching of skin, but so tender is unable to 

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CROTON TIGI.IUM— (Continued). 

scratch ; > by gentle rubbing ; eczema over whole 
body. 

Intense itching of genitals of both sexes (Rhus); 
vesicular eruption on male ; so sensitive and sore is 
unable to scratch. 

Cough ; as soon as the head touched the pillow a 
spasmodic paroxysm of cough set in ; suffocated, must 
walk about the room or sleep in a chair. 

• Relations. — Compare : Kali br., Phos. in chronic 
iufantile diarrhoea ; Sil. pain from nipple through to 
back when nursing. 

Aggravation. — Diarrhoea : every motion ; after 
drinking ; while eating or nursing (Arg. n., Ars.); 
during summer ; from fruit and sweetmeats (Gamb.); 
the least food or drink. 



CUPRUM METALLICUM. 

Copper. CN. 

Spasms and cramps ; symptoms disposed to appear 
periodically and in groups. 

Mental and physical exhaustion from over-exertion 
of mind and loss of sleep (Coc., Nux) ; attacks of un- 
conquerable anxiety. 

A strong, sweetish, metallic, copper taste in the 
mouth with flow of saliva (Rhus). 

Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, 
like a snake (Iyach.). 

When drinking, the fluid descends with a gurgling 
sound (Ars., Thuja). 

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CUPRUM METALLICUM-( Continued ) . 

Cholera morbus or Asiatic cholera, with cramps in 
abdomen and calves of legs. 

Bad effects of re-percussed eruptions (of non-devel- 
oped, Zinc), resulting in brain affections, spasms, con- 
vulsions, vomiting; of suppressed foot-sweat (Sil., 
Zinc). 

Convulsions, with blue face and clenched thumbs. 

Cramps in the extremities ; palms, soles, calves, 
with great weariness of limbs. 

Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes, and 
spreading over entire body ; during pregnancy ; puer- 
peral convulsions ; after fright or vexation ; from 
metastasis from other organs to brain (Zinc). 

Paralysis of tongue ; imperfect, stammering speech. 

Epilepsy : aura begins in knees and ascends ; < at 
night during sleep (Bufo) ; about new moon, at regu- 
lar intervals (menses) ; from a fall or blow upon the 
head ; from getting wet. 

Cough has a gurgling sound, as if water was being 
poured from a bottle. 

Cough, > by drinking cold water (Caust. — < 
by drinking cold water, Spong.). 

Whooping-cough : long-lasting, suffocating, spas- 
modic cough ; unable to speak ; breathless, blue face, 
rigid, stiff ; three attacks successively (Stan.) ; vomit- 
ing of solid food after regaining consciousness (Can.) ; 
cataleptic spasm with each paroxysm. 

After pains ; severe, distressing, in calves and soles. 

Relations. — Complementary : Calcarea. 

Compare : Ars. and Ver. in cholera and cholera 
morbus ; Ipecac, the vegetable analogue. 

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CUPRUM METALLICFM-(0«//m^). 

Ver. follows well in whooping-cough and cholera. 

Apis and Zinc, in convulsions from suppressed ex- 
anthems. 

Aggravation. — Cold air ; cold wind ; at night ; sup- 
pressed foot sweat or exanthem. 

Amelioration. — Nausea, vomiting and cough, by a 
swallow of cold water. 



CYCLAMEN EUROPiEUM. 

Sow Bread. Primulacece. 

Best suited for leuco-phlegmatic persons with 
anaemic or chlorotic conditions ; easily fatigued, and 
in consequence not inclined to any kind of labor ; 
feeble or suspended functions of organs or special 
senses. 

Pale, chlorotic ; deranged menses (Fer., Puis.), ac- 
companied by vertigo, headache, dim vision. 

Pains ; pressive, drawing or tearing of parts where 
bones lie near the surface. 

Ailments : from suppressed grief and terrors of con- 
science ; from duty not done or bad act committed. 

Great sadness and peevishness ; irritable, morose, 
ill-humored ; inclined to weep ; desire for solitude ; 
aversion to open air (rev. of Puis.). 

Headache in anaemic patients, with flickering before 
eyes or dim vision, on rising in morning. 

Flickering before eyes, fiery sparks, as of various 
colors, glittering needles, dim vision of fog or smoke. 

Satiety after a few mouthfuls (L,yc), food then be- 

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C YCX AMEN EUROPJEUM- ( Continued ) . 

comes repugnant, causes nausea in throat and palate. 

Saliva and all food has a salty taste ; pork disagrees. 

Menses : too early ; too profuse, black and clotted ; 
membranous (too late, pale, scanty, Puis.) ; better dur- 
ing flow (worse, Act, Puis.). 

Burning sore pain in heels, when sitting, standing 
or walking in open air (Agar., Caust, Val., Phyt). 

Relations. — Compare : Puis., Cinch., Fer., in chlo- 
rosis, and anaemic affections ; Croc, Thuja as if some- 
thing alive in abdomen. 

Aggravation. — Open air; cold water; cold bath- 
ing ; menses < sitting and lying at night. 

Amelioration. — In a warm room ; in-doors ; menses 
> walking (leucorrhcea, < sitting, > walking, Cac. 
Coc). 



DIGITALIS PURPUREA. 

Foxglove. ScrophulariacecE. 

Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous 
weakness and irregular intermitting pulse, occurring 
at the climacteric ; < by least motion. 

Weak heart without valvular complications. 

Sensation as if heart would stop beating if she 
moved (Cocaine — fears that unless constantly on the 
move heart will cease beating, Gels.). 

Faintness or sinking at the stomach ; exhaustion ; 
extreme prostration ; feels as if he were dying. 

Nightly emissions, with great weakness of genitals 
after coitus. 

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DIGITALIS PURPUREA— {Continued). 

Great weakness of chest, cannot bear to talk (Stan.). 

Stools : very light, ash-colored ; delayed, chalky 
(Chel., Pod.) ; almost white (Cal., Cinch.) ; pipe-stem 
stool ; involnntary. 

Pulse full, irregular, very slow and weak ; inter- 
mitting every third, fifth or seventh beat. 

Face pale, deathlike appearance and blnish-red. 

Blueness of skin, eyelids, lips, tongue ; cyanosis. 

Distended veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue. 

Respiration irregular, difficult, deep sighing. 

The fingers "go to sleep " frequently and easily. 

Dropsy : post-scarlatinal ; in Bright's disease ; with 
suppression of urine ; of internal and external parts ; 
with fainting when there are organic affections of the 
heart (with soreness in uterine region, Conv.). 

Fatal syncope may occur when being raised to up- 
right position. 

Relations. — Cinchona antidotes the direct action 
of Digitalis and increases the anxiety. 

Aggravation. — When sitting, especially when sit- 
ting erect ; motion. 



DIOSCOREA VIWLOSA, 

Wild Yam. Dioscoreacece. 

Persons of feeble digestive powers, old or young. 
Flatulence after meals or after eating, especially of 
tea-drinkers ; are often subject to violent colic. 
Griping pains in abdomen about umbilicus. 
Violent twisting colic, occurring in regular parox- 

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OIOSCOREA VII*I*OSA— ( Continued ) . 

ysms, as if intestines were grasped and twisted by a 
powerful hand. 

Colic pains : < from bending forward and while 
lying ; > on standing erect or bending backwards 
(rev. of Col.). 

Emissions during sleep ; vivid dreams of women all 
night (Staph.) ; knees weak ; genitals cold ; great 
despondency (Staph.). 

Felons ; early when pains are sharp and agonizing, 
when pricking is first felt ; nails brittle. 

Disposition to paronychia (Hep.). 

Relations. — Compare : Col., Phos., Pod., Rhus, Sil. 

Aggravation. — Lying ; sitting ; bending double. 

Amelioration. — Motion; walking difficult, com- 
pelled to walk even though tired. 



DIPHTHERINUM. 

Homeopathic Antitoxin. A Nosode. 

Especially adapted to the strumous diathesis ; scrofu- 
lous, psoric or tuberculous persons, prone to catarrhal 
affections of throat and respiratory mucous membranes. 

Patients with weak or exhausted vitality hence are 
extremely susceptible to the diphtheritic virus ; when 
the attack from the onset tends to malignancy (Lac c, 
Mer. cy.). 

Painless diphtheria ; symptoms almost or entirely 
objective ; patient too weak, apathetic or too pros- 
trated to complain ; sopor or stupor, but easily aroused 
when spoken to (Bap., Sulph.). 

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DIPHTHERI1MJM— ( Continued ) . 

Dark red swelling of tonsils and palatine arches ' 
parotid and cervical glands greatly swollen ; breath 
and discharges from throat, nose and mouth very of- 
fensive ; tongue swollen, very red, little coating. 

Diphtheritic membrane, thick, dark gray or brown- 
ish black ; temperature low or subnormal, pulse weak 
and rapid, extremities cold and marked debility ; 
patient lies in a semi-stupid condition ; eyes dull, be- 
sotted (Apis, Bap.). 

Bpistaxis or profound prostration from very onset of 
attack (Ail., Apis, Carb. ac.) ; collapse almost at very 
beginning (Crot, Mer. cy.) ; pulse weak, rapid and 
vital reaction very low. 

Swallows without pain, but fluids are vomited or re- 
turned by the nose ; breath horribly offensive. 

Laryngeal diphtheria, after Chi or., Kali bi. or Iyac c. 
fail; post diphtheritic paralysis, after, Caust, Gels. fail. 

When the patient from the first seems doomed, and 
the most carefully selected remedies fail to relieve or 
permanently improve. 

The above are cured symptoms, verifications which 
the author has found guiding and reliable for twenty- 
five years. 

The remedy is prepared, like all nosodes and animal 
poisons, according to the Homeopathic Pharmaco- 
poeia, and like all homeopathic remedies entirely safe 
when given the sick. 

Like all the nosodes it is practically worthless in 
potencies below the 30th ; its curative value also in- 
creases with increase of potency from the 200th to the 
m and cm. It need not and should not be repeated 

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DIPHTHERINUM-(Ow//«w^ ). 

too frequently. It will cure in every case that crude 
antitoxin will and is not only easy to administer, but 
safe and entirely free from dangerous sequellae. Be- 
sides, it is homeopathic. 

The author has used it for twenty-five years as a 
prophylactic and has never known a second case of 
diphtheria to occur in a family after it had been ad- 
ministered. The profession is asked to put it to the 
test and publish the failures to the world. 



DROSERA ROTUNDIFOMA. 

Sundew. Droseracece. 

Whooping-cough with violent paroxysms which fol- 
low each other rapidly, is scarcely able to get breath 
(wakes at 6-7 A. M. and does not cease coughing until 
a large quantity of tenacious mucus is raised, Coc. c. — 
profuse epistaxis during every paroxysm, Ind.; 
" minute gun " during the day, whooping at night, 
Cor. r). 

Deep sounding, hoarse barking cough (Verb.), < 
after midnight, during or after measles ; spasmodic, 
with gagging, retching and vomiting (Bry., Kali a). 

Constant, titillating cough in children, begins as 
soon as head touches pillow at night (Bell., Hyos., 
Rum.). 

Nocturnal cough of young persons in phthisis ; 
bloody or purulent sputa. 

Cough ; < by warmth, drinking, singing, laugh- 
ing, weeping, lying down, after midnight. 

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DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA-( Continued ) . 

During cough ; vomiting of water, mucus, and often 
bleeding at the nose and mouth (Cup.). 

Sensation of feather in larynx, exciting cough. 

Diseases prevailing during epidemic pertussis. 

Clergyman's sore throat ; with rough, scraping, dry 
sensation deep in the fauces ; voice hoarse, deep, tone- 
less, cracked, requires exertion to speak (Arum.). 

Constriction and crawling in larynx ; hoarseness, 
and yellow or green sputa. 

Laryngeal phthisis following whooping-cough (bron- 
chial catarrh following, Coc. c.) 

Relations. — Complementary : to, Nux vomica. 

Follows well : after, Samb., Sulph., Ver. 

Is followed : by, Cal., Puis., Sulph. 

Compare : Cina, Coral., Cup., Ipec, Samb. in spas- 
modic coughs. Often relieves the constant, distress- 
ing night-cough in tuberculosis. 

Hahnemann says (Mat. Med. Pura): " One single dose of the 
30th' potency is sufficient to cure entirely epidemic whooping 
cough. The cure takes place surely between seven and eight days. 
Never give a second dose immediately after the first; it would not 
only prevent the good effect of the former, but would be injuri- 
ous." 

DULCAMARA. 

Bitter-sweet. Solanacecz. 

Adapted to persons of phlegmatic scrofulous con- 
stitutions ; restless, irritable. 

Catarrhal rheumatism or skin affections, brought on 
or aggravated by exposure to cold, damp, rainy 
weather, or sudden changes in hot weather (Bry.). 

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DULCAMARA- ( Continued ). 

Increased secretion of mucous membranes ; perspi- 
ration being suppressed from cold. 

Patients living or working in a damp, cold base- 
ment, or a milk dairy (Aran., Ars., Nat. s.). 

Mental confusion ; cannot find the right word for 
anything. 

Skin is delicate, sensitive to cold, liable to erup- 
tions, especially urticaria ; every time patient takes 
cold or is long exposed to cold. 

Anasarca ; after ague, rheumatism, scarlet fever. 

Dropsy : after suppressed sweat ; suppressed erup- 
tions ; exposure to cold. 

Diarrhoea : from taking cold in damp places, or 
during damp, foggy weather ; change from warm to 
cold weather (Bry.). 

Catarrhal ischuria in grown-up children, with milky 
urine ; from wading with bare feet in cold water ; in- 
voluntary. 

Rash before the menses (Con. — during profuse 
menses, Bell., Graph.). 

Urticaria over whole body-, no fever ; itching burns 
after scratching ; < in warmth,' > in cold. 

Thick, brown-yellow crusts on scalp, face, forehead, 
temples, chin ; with reddish borders, bleeding when 
scratched. 

Warts, fleshy, large, smooth ; on face or back of 
hands and fingers (Thuja). 

Relations. — Complementary : to, Baryta carb., 
Kali s. 

Incompatible : with, Acet. ac, Bell., Lach. 

Should not be used before or after. 

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DULCAMARA-( Continued ) . 

Follows well : after, Cal., Bry., L,yc, Rhus, Sep. 

Similar : to, Mer. in ptyalism, glandular swell- 
ings, bronchitis, diarrhoea ; susceptibility to weather 
changes ; night pains ; to, Kali s. the chemical ana- 
logue. 

For the bad effects or abuse of Mercury. 

Aggravation. — From cold in general ; cold air ; 
cold, wet weather ; suppressed menstruation, eruptions, 
sweat. 

Amelioration. — From moving about (Fer., Rhus). 



EQUISETUM HYEMALE. 

Scouring Rush. Equisetacece. 

Severe dull pain in the bladder, as from distension, 
not > after urinating. 

Frequent and intolerable urging to urinate, with 
severe pain at close of urination (Berb., Sars., Thuja). 

Constant desire to urinate ; large quantity of clear, 
watery urine, without > (scanty, a few drops, Apis, 
Canth.). 

Sharp, burning, cutting pain in urethra while 
urinating. 

Paralysis of bladder in old women. * 

Enuresis diurna et nocturna; profuse watery urine, 
where habit is the only ascertainable cause. 

Relations. — Campare : Apis, Canth., Fer. p., Puis., 
Squilla. 



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EUPATORIUBf PERFOLIATUM. 

Boneset. Composite?. 

Adapted to diseases of old people ; worn-out con- 
stitutions, especially from inebriety ; cachexia, from 
prolonged or frequent attacks of bilious or intermittent 
fevers 

Bruised feeling, as if broken, all over the body 
(Arm, Bellis, Pyr.). 

Bone pains affecting back, head, chest, limbs, espe- 
cially the wrists, as if dislocated. The more general 
and severe, the better adapted (compare, Bry., Mer.). 

Painful soreness of eyeballs ; coryza, aching in every 
bone ; great prostration in epidemic influenza (Lac c). 

Pains come quickly and go away as quickly (Bell., 
Mag. p., Eup. pur.). 

Vertigo ; sensation as if falling to the left (cannot 
turn the head to the left for fear of falling, Col.). 

Cough : chronic ; loose with hectic ; chest sore, must 
support it with hands (Bry., Nat. a); < at night ; 
following measles or suppressed intermittents. 

Fever : chill, 7 to 9 A. m. one day, at noon the next 
day ; bitter vomiting at close of chill ; drinking 
hastens chill and causes vomiting ; bone pains, before 
and during chill. 

Insatiable thirst before and during chill and fever ; 
knows chill is coming because he cannot drink enough. 

Relations. — Is followed well : by, Nat. m. and Sep. 

Compare: Chel., Pod., Lye, in jaundiced conditions. 

Bryonia is the nearest analogue, having free sweat, 
but pains keep patient quiet ; while Eup. has scanty 
sweat and pains make patient restless. 



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EUPHRASIA. 

Eyebright. Scrophularacece. 

Bad effects from falls, contusions or mechanical in- 
juries of external parts (Arm). 

Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes, espe- 
cially of the eyes and nose. 

Profuse, acrid lachrymation, with profuse, bland 
coryza (reverse of All. c). 

The eyes water all the time and are agglutinated 
in the morning ; margins of lids red, swollen, burning. 

Profuse fluent coryza in morning with violent cough 
and abundant expectoration, < from exposure to 
warm south wind. 

When attempting to clear the throat of an offensive 
mucus in the morning, gagging until he vomits the 
breakfast just eaten (Bry.). 

Profuse expectoration of mucus by voluntary hawk- 
ing, < on rising in morning. 

Amenorrhcea, with catarrhal symptoms of eyes and 
nose ; profuse acrid lachrymation. 

Menses : painful, regular , flow lasting only one 
hour ; or late, scanty, short, lasting only one day (Bar.). 

Pertussis : excessive lachrymation during cough ; 
cough only in day time (Fer., Nat. m.). 

Relations. — Similar : to, Puis, in affections of the 
eyes ; reverse of All. c. in lachrymation and coryza. 

Aggravation. — In the evening, in bed, indoors, 
warmth, moisture ; after exposure to south wind ; 
when touched (Hep.). 



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FERRUM METALLICOI. 

Iron. The Element. 

Persons of sanguine temperament ; pettish, quarrel- 
some, disputative, easily excited, least contradiction 
angers (Anac, Coc, Ign.) ; > from mental exertion. 

Irritability : slight noises like crackling of paper, 
drive him to despair (Asar., Tar.). 

Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have 
a firey red face. 

Extreme paleness of the face, lips and mucous 
membranes, which become red and flushed on the least 
pain, eniotion or exertion. Blushing (Amyl., Coca). 

Erethitic chlorosis, worse in winter. 

Red parts become white ; face, lips, tongue and 
mucous membrane of mouth. 

Vertigo : with balancing sensation, as if on water ; 
on seeing flowing water ; when walking over water, 
as when crossing a bridge (Lys.) ; on descending 
(Bor., Sanic). 

Headache : hammering, beating, pulsating pains, 
must lie down ; with aversion to eating or drinking. 
For two, three or four days every two or three weeks. 

Menses : too early, too profuse, too long lasting, 
with firey red face ; ringing in the ears ; intermit two 
or three days and then return ; flow pale, watery, 
debilitating. 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; blood bright red, coagu- 
lates easily (Fer. p., Ipec, Phos.). 

Regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls 
(Alum.), without nausea. 

Canine hunger, or loss of appetite, with extreme 
dislike for all food. 

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FERRUM METALUClIM-(C^/m«^.). 

Vomiting : immediately after midnight ; of ingesta, 
as soon as food is eaten ; leaves table suddenly and 
with one effort vomits everything eaten, can sit down 
and eat again ; sour, acid (Lye, Sul. ac). 

Diarrhoea : undigested stools at night, or while eat- 
ing or drinking (Crot. t.) ; painless with a good appe- 
tite ; of consumptives. 

Constipation : from intestinal atony ; ineffectual 
urging ; stools hard, difficult, followed by backache 
or cramping pain in rectum ; prolapsus recti of chil- 
dren ; itching of anus at night. 

Always feels better by walking slowly about, al- 
though weakness obliges the patient to lie down. 

Cough only in the day time (Euphr.) ; relieved by 
lying down ; > by eating (Spong.). 

Dropsy ; after loss of vital fluids ; abuse of quinine ; 
suppressed intermittent (Carbo v., Cinch.). 

Relations. — Complementary : to, Alum., Cinch. 

Cinch : the vegetable analogue follows well in nearly 
all diseases, acute or chronic. 

Should never be given in syphilis ; always aggra- 
vates the condition. 

Aggravation. — At night ; at rest, especially while 
sitting still. 

Amelioration. — Walking slowly about ; in summer. 



FLUORIC ACID. 

Hydrofluoric Acid. HF. 

Complaints of old age, or of premature old age ; in 
syphilitic mercurial dyscrasia ; young people look old. 

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FLUORIC ACID— (Continued). 

Increased ability to exercise without fatigue (Coca) ; 
is less affected by excessive heat of summer or cold of 
winter. 

Old cicatrices become red around edges, and threaten 
to become open ulcers (Caust., Graph.). 

Varicose veins and ulcers, obstinate, long standing 
cases, in women who have borne many children. 

Caries and necrosis, especially of long bones, psoric 
or syphilitic, abuse of mercury or silica (Angus.). 

Nsevus, flat, of children (r. temple) ; capillary aneu- 
rism (compare, Cal. fl., Tub.). 

Ulcers : red edges and vesicles ; decubitus ; copious 
discharge ; < from warmth, > from cold ; violent 
pains, like streaks of lightning, confined to a small 
spot. 

Rapid caries of teeth ; fistula dentalis or lachrymalis ; 
exostoses of bones of face (Hekla). 

Relations. — Complementary : Coca, Sil. 

Follows well : after, Ars. in ascites of drunkards ; 
after, Kali c. in hip disease ; after, CofL, Staph, in 
sensitive teeth ; after, Phos. ac. in diabetes; after, Sil., 
Symph. in bone diseases ; after, Spong. in goitre. 



GELSEMIUM. 

Yellow Jasmine. Loganiaceee. 

For children, young people, especially women of 
a nervous, hysterical temperament (Croc, Ign.). 

Complete relaxation and prostration of whole mus- 
cular system, with entire motor paralysis. 

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GEXSEMIUM— ( Continued ) . 

Excitable, irritable, sensitive ; for the nervous affec^ 
tions of onanists of both sexes (Kali p.). 

Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news and 
sudden emotions (Ign. — from pleasant surprises, Coff.). 

Fear of death (Ars.) ; utter lack of courage. 

The anticipation of any unusual ordeal, preparing 
for church, theatre, or to meet an engagement, brings 
on diarrhoea ; stage fright, nervous dread of appearing 
in public (Arg. n.). 

General depression from heat of sun or summer. 

Weakness and trembling ; of tongue, hands, legs ; 
of the entire body. 

Desire to be quiet, to be let alone ; does not wish 
to speak or have any one near her, even if the person 
be silent (Ign.). 

Vertigo, spreading from the, occiput (Sil.) ; with 
diplopia, dim vision, loss of sight ; seems intoxicated 
when trying to move. 

Children ; fear of falling, grasp the crib or seize the 
nurse (Bor., Sanic). 

Headache ; preceded by blindness (Kali bi.), > by 
profuse urination. 

Lack of muscular co-ordination ; confused ; muscles 
refuse to obey the will. 

Headache : beginning in the cervical spine ; pains 
extend over the head, causing a bursting sensation in 
forehead and eyeballs (Sang., Sil., begin in same way, 
but semi-lateral) ; < by mental exertion ; from smok- 
ing ; heat of sun ; lying with head low. 

Sensation of band around the head above eyes 
(Carb. ac, Sulph.) ; scalp sore to touch. 

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GEXSEMIUM- ( Continued ) . 

Fears that unless on the move heart will cease beat- 
ing (fears it would cease beating if she moved, Dig.). 

Slow pulse of old age. 

Great heaviness of the eyelids ; cannot keep them 
open (Caust, Graph., Sep.). 

Chill without thirst, especially along the spine, run- 
ning up and down the back in rapid, wave-like success- 
ion from sacrum to occiput. 

Relations. — Compare : Bap. in threatening typhoid 
fever ; Ipecac in dumb ague, after suppression by 
quinine. 

Aggravation. — Damp weather ; before a thunder- 
storm ; mental emotion or excitement ; bad news ; to- 
bacco smoking ; when thinking of his ailments ; when 
spoken to of his loss. 



GLONOINE. 

Nitro-glycerine. C^HJ^NO^) O y 

Nervous temperament ; plethoric, florid, sensitive 
women ; persons readily affected. 

Bad effects of mental excitement, fright, fear, me- 
chanical injuries and their later consequences ; from 
having the hair cut (Aeon., Bell.). 

Head troubles : from working under gas-light, when 
heat falls on head ; can not bear heat about the head, 
heat of stove or walking in the sun (L,ach., Nat. a). 

Cerebral congestion, or alternate congestion of the 
head and heart. 

Head : feels enormously large ; as if skull were too 

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GI^WSOINE— ( Continued ) . 

small for brain ; sunstroke and sun headache ; in- 
creases and decreases every day with the sun (Kal., 
Nat. a). 

Terrific shocks in the head, synchronous with the 
pulse. Throbbing, pulsating headache ; holds head 
with both hands ; could not lie down, " the pillow 
would beat." 

Brain feels too large, full, bursting ; blood seems to 
be pumped upwards ; throbs at every jar, step, pulse. 

Intense congestion of brain from delayed or sup- 
pressed menses ; headache in place of the menses. 

Headache : occurring after profuse uterine hemor- 
rhage ; rush of blood to head, in pregnant women. 

Violent palpitation, with throbbing in carotids ; 
heart's action labored, oppressed ; blood seems to rush 
to heart, and rapidly to head. 

Convulsions of children from cerebral congestion ;. 
meningitis, during dentition, cases that seem to call 
for Belladonna. 

Children get sick in the evening when sitting be- 
fore an open coal fire, or falling asleep there. 

Flushes of heat ; at the climacteric (Amyl., Bell., 
Ivach.) ; with the catamenia (Fer., Sang.). 

Relations. — Compare : Amyl., Bell., Ferr., Gels., 
Melil., Stram. 

Aggravation. — In the sun, exposure to sun's rays ; 
gas-light ; overheating ; jar ; stooping ; ascending ; 
touch of hat; having the hair cut. 



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GRAPMITBS. 

Black Lead. Amorphous Carbon. 

Suited to women, inclined to obesity, who suffer 
from habitual constipation ; with a history of delayed 
menstruation. 

" What Pulsatilla is at puberty, Graphites is at the 
climacteric." 

Excessive cautiousness ; timid, hesitates ; unable to 
decide about anything (Puis.). 

Fidgety while sitting at work (Zinc). 

Sad, despondent ; music makes her weep ; thinks of 
nothing but death (music is intolerable, Nat. c, Sab.). 

Eczema of lids ; eruption moist and fissured, lids 
red and margins covered with scales or crusts. 

Sexual debility from sexual abuse. 

Menses ; too scanty, pale ; late with violent colic ; 
irregular ; delayed from getting feet wet (Puis.). 

Morning sickness during menstruation ; very weak 
and prostrated (Alum., Carbo an., Coc). 

Leucorrhcea : acrid, excoriating ; occurs in gushes 
day and night ; before and after menses (before, Sep. ; 
after, Kreos.). 

Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, 
retarding the flow of milk ; cancer of breast, from old 
scars and repeated abscesses. 

Unhealthy skin ; every injury suppurates (Hep.); 
old cicatrices break open again ; eruptions upon the 
ears, between fingers and toes and on various parts of 
body, from which ooze a watery, transparent, sticky- 
fluid. 

The nails brittle, crumbling, deformed (Ant. a); 
painful, sore, as if ulcerated ; thick and crippled. 

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GR APHITES- ( Continued ) . 

Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers, nipples, labial 
commissures ; of anus ; between the toes. 

Burning round spot on vertex (Cal., Sulph. — cold 
spot, Sep., Ver.). 

Cataleptic condition ; conscious, but without power 
to move or speak. 

Takes cold easily; sensitive to draught of air (Bor., 
Cal., Hep., Nux). Suffering parts emaciate. 

Hears better when in a noise ; when riding in a 
carriage or car, when there is a rumbling sound 
(Nit. ac). 

Diarrhoea : stools brown, fluid, mixed with un- 
digested substances, and of an intolerable odor ; often 
caused by suppressed eruptions (Psor.). 

Chronic constipation ; stool difficult, large, hard, 
knotty, with lumps united by mucous threads ; too 
large (Sulph.); smarting sore pain in anus after stool. 

Children ; impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. 

Sensation of cobweb on forehead, tries hard to 
brush it off (Bar., Bor., Brom., Ran. s.). 

Phelgmonous erysipelas : of face, with burning, 
stinging pain ; commencing on right side, going to 
left ; after application of Iodine. 

Decided aversion to coition (both sexes). 

Relations. — Complementary : Caust., Hep., L,yc. 

Graphites follows well : after, L,yc., Puis.; after 
Cal. in obesity of young women with large amount 
of unhealthy adipose tissue ; follows Sulph. well in 
skin affections ; after, Sepia in gushing leucorrhcea. 

Similar : to, L,yc, Puis, in menstrual troubles. 



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GRAPHITES— ( Continued ) . 

Aggravation. — At night, during and after menstrua- 
tion. 



HAMAMELIS TIRGINICA. 

Witch Hazel. Hamamelacece. 

This shrub flowers from September to November, 
when the leaves are falling. The seeds mature the 
following summer. 

It is adapted to venous hemorrhage from every ori- 
fice of the body ; nose, lungs, bowels, uterus, bladder. 

Venous congestion : passive, of skin and mucous 
membranes ; phlebitis, varicose veins ; ulcers, varicose, 
with stinging, pricking pain ; hemorrhoids. 

Patients, subject to varicose veins, take cold easily 
from every exposure, especially in warm, moist air. 

" Is the Aconite of the venous capillary system." 

Bruised soreness of affected parts (Arn.); rheu- 
matism, articular and muscular. 

Wounds : incised, lacerated, contused ; injuries from 
falls ; checks hemorrhage, removes pain and soreness 
(Arn.). 

Chronic effects of mechanical injuries (Con.). 

Traumatic conjunctivitis ; sugillations, or extravas a 
tions into chambers of eye ; from severe coughing ; 
intense soreness (Arn., Calen., Led.). 

Nosebleed : flow passive, long-lasting, blood non- 
coagulable (Crot.); profuse > headache (Mel.); idio- 
pathic, traumatic, vicarious, of childhood. 

Hemorrhage : profuse, dark, grumous, from ulcera- 

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HAMAMEXIS VIRGrXICA— {Continued'). 

tion of bowels (Crot); uterine, active or passive; after 
a fall or rough riding ; vicarious menstruation ; no 
mental anxiety. 

Hemoptysis ; tickling cough, with taste of blood or 
sulphur ; venous, without effort or coughing ; some- 
times monthly, for years. 

Profuse discharges, which simulate a hemorrhage, 
and form a drain upon system as severe as loss of 
blood. 

Hemorrhoids : bleeding profusely ; with burning, 
soreness, fulness, heaviness ; as if back would break ; 
urging to stool ; bluish color ; anus feels sore and raw. 

Menses : flow, dark and profuse ; with soreness in 
abdomen ; after a blow on ovary, or a fall ; all suffer- 
ing < at menstrual period (Act., Puis.). 

Uterine hemorrhage active or passive ; from jolting 
while riding over rough roads ; bearing down pain in 
back. 

After hemorrhage from piles, prostration out of all 
proportion to amount of blood lost (Hydr.). 

Bad effects from loss of blood (Cinch.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Ferrum, in hemor- 
rhages and the hemorrhagic diathesis. 

Compare : Arn., Calen., for traumatic, and to hasten 
absorption of intraocular hemorrhage. 

HELLEBORIS NIGER. 

Christmas Rose. Ranunculacece. 

Weakly, delicate, psoric children ; prone to brain 
troubles (Bell., Cal., Tub.) ; with serous effusion. 

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MEULEBORUS NIGER-(C^»«^). 

Melancholy : woeful; despairing ; silent ; with 
anguish ; after typhoid ; in girls at puberty, or when 
menses fail to return after appearing. 

Irritable, easily angered ; consolation < (Ign., Nat., 
Sep., Sil.) ; does not want to be disturbed (Gels., Nat). 

Unconscious ; stupid ; answers slowly when ques- 
tioned; a picture of acute idiocy (of chronic, Bar. a). 

Brain symptoms during dentition (Bell., Pod.) ; 
threatening effusion (Apis, Tub.). 

Meningitis : acute, cerebro-spinal, tubercular, with 
exudation ; paralysis more or less complete ; with the 
cri encephalique. 

Vacant, thoughtless staring ; eyes wide open ; in- 
sensible to light ; pupils dilated, or alternately con- 
tracted and dilated. 

Soporous sleep, with screams, shrieks, starts. 

Hydrocephalus, post-scarlatinal or tubercular which 
develops rapidly (Apis, Sulph., Tub.); automatic 
motion of one arm and leg. 

Convulsions with extreme coldness of body, except 
head or occiput, which may be hot (Arn.). 

Greedily swallows cold water ; bites spoon, but re- 
mains unconscious. 

Chewing motion of the mouth ; corners of mouth 
sore, cracked ; nostrils dirty and sooty, dry. 

Constantly picking his lips, clothes, or boring into 
his nose with his finger (while perfectly conscious, 
Arum). 

Boring head into pillow ; rolling from side to side ; 
beating head with hands. 

Diarrhoea: during acute hydrocephalus, dentition, 

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MEI.UEBORUS ISTGEEL— (Continued). 

pregnancy ; watery ; clear, tenacious colorless mucus ; 
white, jelly-like mucus ; like frog spawn ; involuntary. 

Urine : red, black, scanty, coffee-ground sediment ; 
suppressed in brain troubles and dropsy ; albuminous. 

Dropsy : of brain, chest, abdomen ; after scarlatina, 
intermittents ; with fever, debility, suppressed urine ; 
from suppressed exanthemata (Apis, Zinc). 

Relations. — Compare : Apis, Apoc, Ars., Bell., 
Bry., Dig., L,ach., Sulph., Tub., Zinc in brain or men- 
ingeal affections. 



HELONIAS OIOICA. 

Unicorn Plant Melanthacece . 

For women : with prolapsus from atony, enervated 
by indolence and luxury ; worn out with hard work, 
mental or physical ; overtaxed muscles burn and ache ; 
so tired cannot sleep. 

Always better when occupied, when not thinking 
of the ailment (Cal. p., Oxal. ac). 

Restless, must be continually moving about. 

Irritable, fault finding ; cannot endure least contra- 
diction or receive least suggestion (Anac). 

Profound melancholy ; deep, mental depression. 

Diabetes : first stages ; urine profuse, clear, saccha- 
rine ; lips dry, stick together ; great thirst ; restless- 
ness ; emaciation ; irritable and melancholy. 

Albuminuria : acute or chronic ; during pregnancy, 
with great weakness, languor, drowsiness ; unusually 
tired, yet knows no reason. 

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HEI^ONIAS OIOICA— (Continued). 

Menses : too early, too profuse, from uterine 
atony in women enfeebled by loss of blood ; when 
patients lose more blood than is made in intermenstrual 
period ; breasts swollen, nipples painful and tender 
(Con., Lac c). Flow passive, dark, clotted, offensive. 

Sensation of soreness and heaviness in pelvis 
(Lappa) ; a consciousness of a womb, feels it move 
when she moves, it is so sore and tender (Lys.). 

For the bad effects of abortions and miscarriages. 

Relations. — Compare : Aletris, Fer., Lib, Phos. ac. 

Similar : to, Alet. in debility from prolapsus, pro- 
tracted illness, defective nutrition. 



HEPAR SULPHUR. 

Sulphuret of Lime. Ca. S. 

For torpid lymphatic constitutions ; persons with 
light hair and complexion, slow to act, muscles soft 
and flabby. 

The slightest injury causes suppuration (Graph., 
Mer.). 

Diseases where the system has been injured by the 
abuse of Mercury. 

In diseases where suppuration seems inevitable, 
Hepar may open the abscess and hasten the cure. 

Oversensitive, physically and mentally ; the slight- 
est cause irritates him ; quick, hasty speech and hasty 
drinking. 

Patient is peevish, angry at the least trifle ; hypo- 
chondriacal ; unreasonably anxious. 

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HEPAR SULPHUR— {Continued). 

Extremely sensitive to cold air, imagines he can 
feel the air if a door is opened in the next room ; must 
be wrapped up to the face even in hot weather (Psor.); 
cannot bear to be uncovered (Nux — cannot bear to be 
covered, Camp., Sec.) ; takes cold from slightest ex- 
posure to fresh air (Tub.). 

Urine : flow impeded ; voided slowly, without force, 
drops vertically ; is obliged to wait awhile before it 
passes ; bladder weak, is unable to finish, seems as if 
some urine always remains (Alum., Sil.). 

Cough : when any part of the body is uncovered 
(Rhus) ; croupy, choking, strangling ; from exposure 
to dry west wind, the land wind (Aeon.). 

Asthma : breathing, anxious, wheezing, rattling ; 
short, deep breathing, threatens suffocation ; must bend 
head back and . sit up ; after , suppressed eruption 
(Psor.). 

Croup : after exposure to dry cold wind (Aeon.) ; 
deep, rough, barking cough, with hoarseness and rat- 
tling of mucus ; < cold air, cold drinks, before mid- 
night or toward morning. 

Sensation of a splinter, fish bone or plug in the 
throat (Arg. n., Nit. ac.) ; quinsy, when suppuration 
threatens ; chronic hypertrophy, with hardness of 
hearing (Bar., Lye, Plumb., Psor.). 

The skin is very sensitive to touch, cannot bear 
even clothes to touch affected parts (L,ach. — sensitive 
to slightest touch, but can bear hard pressure, Cinch.). 

Skin affections extremely sensitive to touch, the 
pain often causing fainting. 



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HEPAR SULPHUR- (Continued). 

Ulcers, herpes, surrounded by little pimples or 
pustules and spread by coalescing. 

Middle of lower lip cracked (Am. c, Nat. m. — cracks 
in commissures, Cund.). 

Eyeballs : sore to touch ; pain as if they would be 
pulled back into head (Olean., Paris). 

Diarrhoea: of children with sour smell (Cal., Mag. 
c. — child and stool have a sour smell, Rheum) ; clay- 
colored stool (Cal., Pod.). 

Sweats : profusely day and night without relief ; 
perspiration sour, offensive ; easily, on every mental 
or physical exertion (Psor., Sep.). 

Relations. — Complementary : to, Calendula in in- 
juries of soft parts. 

Hepar antidotes : bad effects of mercury and other 
metals, iodine, iodide of potash, cod-liver oil ; renders 
patient less susceptible to atmospheric changes and 
cold air. 

Compare : The psoric skin affections of Sulphur are 
dry, itching, > by scratching, and not sensitive to 
touch ; while in Hepar the skin is unhealthy, sup- 
purating, moist, and extremely sensitive to touch. 

Aggravation. — Lying on painful side (Kali c, Iod.) ; 
cold air ; uncovering ; eating or drinking cold things ; 
touching affected parts ; abuse of mercury. 

Amelioration. — Warmth in general (Ars.) ; wrap- 
ping up warmly, especially the head (Psor., Sil.) ; in 
damp, wet weather (Caust., Nux — rev. of, Nat. s.). 



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HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. 

Golden Seal. Rannnculacece. 

For debilitated persons, with viscid mucous dis- 
charges. 

Cachectic or malignant dyscrasia, with marked de- 
rangement of gastric and hepatic functions ; broken 
down by excessive use of alcohol. 

Cancer : hard, adherent ; skin mottled, puckered ; 
pains knife-like, sharp cutting ; nipple retracted. 

Nursing sore mouth ; tongue large, shows imprint 
of teeth. 

Iveucorrhcea : ropy, thick, viscid, yellow ; hanging 
from os in long strings (Kali bi.) ; pruritus. 

Profuse discharge of thick, yellow, stringy mucus 
from nasal passages (Cor. r.). 

Hawks yellow, viscid mucus from posterior nares 
and fauces ; ulceration, after mercury or chlorate of 
potash ; syphilitic angina. 



HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 

Henbane. Solanacece. 

Persons of sanguine temperament ; who are irri- 
table, nervous, hysterical. 

Convulsions : of children, from fright or the irrita- 
tion of intestinal worms (Cina) ; during labor ; during 
the puerperal state ; after meals, child vomits, sudden 
shriek, then insensible. 

Diseases with increased cerebral activity but non- 
inflammatory in type ; hysteria or delirium tremens ; 

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HYOSCYAMUS NIGER- (Continued). 

delirium, with restlessness, jumps out of bed, tries to 
escape ; makes irrelevant answers ; thinks he is in the 
wrong place ; talks of imaginary wrongs, but has no 
wants and makes no complaints. 

In delirium, Hyoscyamus occupies a place midway 
between Belladonna and Stramonium ; lacks • the con- 
stant cerebral congestion of the former and the fierce 
rage and maniacal delirium of the latter. 

Spasms : without consciousness, very restless ; every 
muscle in the body twitches, from the eyes to the toes 
(with consciousness, Nux). 

Fears : being alone ; poison ; being bitten ; being 
sold ; to eat or drink ; to take what is offered ; suspi- 
cious, of some plot. 

Bad effects of unfortunate love ; with jealousy, rage, 
incoherent speech or inclination to laugh at every- 
thing ; often followed by epilepsy. 

Lascivious mania ; immodesty, will not be covered, 
kicks off the clothes, exposes the person ; sings obscene 
songs ; lies naked in bed and chatters. 

Cough : dry, nocturnal, spasmodic ; < when lying 
down, relieved by sitting up (Dros.); < at night, after 
eating, drinking, talking, singing (Dros., Phos. — > 
when lying down, Mang. m.). 

Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons 
from business embarrassments, often imaginary. 

Paralysis of bladder ; after labor, with retention or 
incontinence of urine ; no desire to urinate in lying-in 
women (Arn., Op.). 

Fever : pneumonia, scarlatina, rapidly becomes 
typhoid ; sensorium clouded, staring eyes, grasping at 

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HYOSCYAMUS TSUGEVL— (Continued). 

flocks or picking bed clothes, teeth covered with 
sordes, tongue dry and unwieldy, involuntary stool 
and urine ; subsultus tendinum. 

Relations. — Compare : Bell., Stram. and Verat. 

Phos. often cures lasciviousness when Hyos. fails. 

Nux or Opium in hemoptysis of drunkards. 

Follows : Bell, well in deafness after apoplexy. 

Aggravation. — At night ; during menses ; mental 
affections ; jealousy, unhappy love ; when lying down. 



HYPERICUM PERFORATUM. 

St. Joint's Wort. Hypericacece. 

Mechanical injuries of spinal cord ; bad effects of 
spinal concussion ; pains, after a fall on coccyx. 

Punctured, incised or lacerated wounds ; sore, pain- 
ful (Led. — contused wounds, Arn., Ham.), especially 
if of long duration. 

Injuries : from treading on nails, needles, pins, splin- 
ters (Led.) ; from rat-bites ; prevents lockjaw. 

Preserves integrity of torn and lacerated members 
when almost entirely separated from body (Calend.). 

Injury to parts rich in sentient nerves — fingers, 
toes, matrices of nails, palms or soles — where the in- 
tolerable pain shows nerves are severely involved ; of 
tissues of animal life, as hands and feet. 

Nervous depression following wounds or surgical 
operations ; removes bad effect of shock, of fright, of 
mesmerism. 

Always modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration 

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HYPERICUM PERFORATUM- (Contin'd). 

and sloughing (Calend.). Crushed, mashed finger-tips. 
Tetanus after traumatic injuries (compare, Phys.). 

Vertigo : sensation as if head became suddenly 
elongated ; at night, with urging to urinate. 

Headache ; after a fall upon occiput, with sensation 
as if being lifted up high into the air ; great anxiety 
lest she fall from this height. 

Spine : after a fall ; slightest motion of arms or 
neck extorts cries ; spine very sensitive to touch. 

Bunions and corns when pain is excruciating, show- 
ing nerve involvement. 

Convulsions ; after blows on head or concussion. 

Relations. — Compare : Arm, Calen., Ruta, Staph. 

In wounds where formerly Aeon, and Arn. were 
given alternately, Hypericum cures. 



IGNATIA. 

St. Ignatius Bean. Loganiacecz. 

Especially suited to nervous temperament ; women 
of a sensitive, easily excited nature ; dark hair and 
skin but mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in 
execution. In striking contrast with the fair com- 
plexion, yielding, lachrymose, but slow and indecisive, 
Pulsatilla. 

The remedy of great contradictions : the roaring in 
ears > by music ; the piles > when walking ; sore 
throat feels > when swallowing ; empty feeling in 
stomach not > by eating ; cough < the more he 
coughs ; cough on standing still during a walk 

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IGX ATI A— ( Continued ) . 

(Ast. fl.); spasmodic laughter from grief ; sexual desire 
with impotency ; thirst during a chill, no thirst in the 
fever ; the color changes in the face when at rest. 

Mental conditions rapidly, in an almost incredibly 
short time, change from joy to sorrow, from laughing 
to weeping (Coff., Croc, Nux m.); moody. 

Persons mentally and physically exhausted by 
long-concentrated grief. 

Involuntary sighing (L,ach.); with a weak, empty 
feeling at pit of stomach ; not > by eating (Hydr., 
Sep.). 

Bad effects of anger, grief, or disappointed love 
(Cal. p., Hyos.); broods in solitude over imaginary 
trouble. 

Desire to be alone. 

Finely sensitive mood, delicate conscientiousness. 

Inconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome. 

Amiable in disposition if feeling well, but easily 
disturbed by very slight emotion/ easily offended. 

The slightest fault finding or contradiction excites 
anger, and this makes him angry with himself. 

Children : when reprimanded, scolded, or sent to 
bed, get sick or have convulsions in sleep. 

Ill effects, from bad news ; from vexation with 
reserved displeasure ; from suppressed mental suffer- 
ings ; of shame and mortification (Staph.). 

Headache, as if a nail was driven out through the 
side, relieved by lying on it (Coff., Nux, Thuja). 

Cannot bear tobacco ; smoking, or being in tobacco 
smoke, produces or aggravates headache. 

In talking or chewing, bites inside of cheek. 

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IGNATIA— ( Continued ) . 

Sweat on the face on a small spot only while eating. 

Oversensitiveness to pain (Coff., Cham.). 

Constipation : from carriage riding ; of a paralytic 
origin ; with excessive urging, felt more in upper ab- 
domen (Ver.) ; with great pain, dreads to go to closet ; 
in women who are habitual coffee drinkers. 

Prolapsus ani from moderate straining at stool, 
stooping or lifting (Nit. ac, Pod., Ruta) ; < when 
the stool is loose. 

Hemorrhoids : prolapse with every stool, have to 
be replaced ; sharp stitches shoot up the rectum (Nit. 
a.) ; < for hours after stool (Rat., Sulph.). 

Twitchings, jerkings, even spasms of single limbs 
or- whole body, when falling asleep. 

Pain in small, circumscribed spots. 

Fever : red face during chill (Fer.) ; chill, with 
thirst during chill only ; > by external heat ; heat 
without thirst, < by covering (> by covering, Nux). 

Complaints return at precisely the same hour. 

Ignatia bears the same relation to the diseases of 
women that Nux does to sanguine, bilious men. 

There are many more Ignatia persons in North 
America than Nux vomica persons. — Hering. 

Relations. — Incompatible : Coff., Nux, Tab. 

The bad effects of Ign. are antidoted by Puis. 

Aggravation. — From tobacco, coffee, brandy, con- 
tact, motion, strong odors, mental emotions, grief. 

Amelioration. — Warmth, hard pressure (Cinch.) ; 
swallowing ; walking. 



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IODTJM. 

Iodine. The Element. 

Persons of a scrofulous diathesis, with dark or black 
hair and eyes ; a low cachectic condition, with pro- 
found debility and great emaciation (Abrot). 

Great weakness and loss of breath on going upstairs 
(Calc.) ; during the menses (Alum, Carbo an., Coc). 

Ravenous hunger ; eats freely and well, yet loses 
flesh all the time (Abrot, Nat. m., Sanic, Tub.). 

Empty eructations from morning to night, as if 
every particle of food was turned into air (Kali a). 

Suffers from hunger, must eat every few hours, 
anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina, Sulph.) ; 
feels > while eating or after eating, when stomach is 
full. 

Itching : low down in the lungs, behind the 
sternum, causing cough ; extends through bronchi 
to nasal cavity (Coc. c, Con., Phos.). 

Hypertrophy and induration of glandular tissue — 
thyroid, mammae, ovaries, testes, uterus, prostate cr 
other glands — breasts may dwindle and become flabby. 

Hard goitre, in dark-haired persons (light-haired, 
Brom.) ; feels > after eating. 

Palpitation, worse from least exertion (compare, 
Dig. — from least mental exertion, Cal. ars.). 

Sensation as if the heart was squeezed together ; as 
if grasped with an iron hand (Cac, Sulph.). 

Leucorrhcea : acrid, corrosive, staining and corrod- 
ing the linen ; most abundant at time of menses. 

Cancerous degeneration of the cervix ; cutting pains 
in abdomen and hemorrhage at every stool. 

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IODUM— {Continued ). 

Constipation, with ineffectual urging > by drink- 
ing cold milk. 

Croup : membranous, hoarse, dry cough, worse in 
warm, wet weather ; with wheezing and sawing respi- 
ration (Spong.). 

Child grasps the larynx (Cepa) ; face pale and cold, 
especially in fleshy children. 

Relations. — Complementary : to, L,ycopodium. 

Compare : Acet. ac, Brom., Con., Kali bi., Spong. 
in membranous croup and croupy affections ; espe- 
cially in overgrown boys with scrofulous diathesis. 

Follows well : after, Hep., Mer.; is followed by Kali 
bi. in croup. Acts best in goitre when given after 
full moon, or when the moon is waning. — Lippe. 

Should not be given during lying-in period, except 
in high potencies. — Hering. 

Aggravation. — Warmth ; wrapping up the head 
(reverse of, Hep., Psor.). 



IPECACUANHA. 

Ipecac, Rubiacece. 

Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms pre- 
dominate (Ant. c, Puis.) ; tongue clean or slightly 
coated. 

In all diseases with constant and continual 
nausea. 

Nausea : with profuse saliva ; vomiting of white, 
glairy mucus in large quantities, without relief; sleepy 

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IPECACU A:NM A— ( Continued ) . 

afterwards ; worse from stooping ; the primary effects 
of tobacco ; of pregnancy. 

Stomach : feels relaxed, as if hanging down (Ign., 
Staph.) ; clutching, squeezing, griping, as from a hand, 
each finger sharply pressing into intestines ; worse 
from motion. 

Flatulent, cutting colic about umbilicus. 

Stool : grassy-green ; of white mucus (Colch.) ; 
bloody ; fermented, foamy, slimy ; like frothy molasses. 

Autumnal dysentery ; cold nights, after hot days 
(Colch., Merc). 

Asiatic cholera, first symptoms, where nausea and 
vomiting predominate (Colch.). 

Hemorrhage : active or passive, bright-red from 
all the orifices of the body (Brig., Mill.) ; uterine, pro- 
fuse, clotted ; heavy, oppressed breathing during ; 
stitches from navel to uterus. 

Cutting pains across abdomen from left to right 
(L,ach. — from right to left, I/yc). 

Cough ; dry, spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic. 

Difficult breathing from least exercise ; violent 
dyspnoea, with wheezing and anxiety about the 
stomach. 

Whooping-cough ; child loses breath, turns pale, 
stiff and blue ; strangling, with gagging and vomit- 
ing of mucus ; bleeding from nose or mouth (Indigo). 

Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when 
inspiring (Ant. t); threatened suffocation from mucus. 

Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces (as if broken, 
Bup.). 

Intermittent fever : in beginning of irregular cases ; 

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IPBCACUAXMA— ( Continued ) . 

with nausea, or from gastric disturbance ; after abuse 
of, or suppression from quinine. 

Intermittent dyspepsia, every other day at same 
hour ; fever, with persistent nausea. 

Oversensitive to heat and cold. 

Relation. — Complementary : Cuprum. 

Is followed well : by, Ars. in influenza, chills, croup, 
debility, cholera infantum ; by Ant. t. in foreign 
bodies in larynx. 

Similar: to, Puis., Ant. c, in gastric troubles. 

Aggravation. — Winter and dry weather; warm, 
moist, south winds (Buph.) ; slightest motion. 



KALI BICHROMICUM. 

Potassium Bichromate. K r Cr 2 .O r 

Fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal, 
syphilitic or psoric affections. 

Fat, chubby, short-necked children disposed to 
croup and croupy affections. 

Affections of the mucous membranes — eyes, nose, 
mouth, throat, bronchi, gastro-intestinal and genito- 
urinary tracts — discharges of a tough, stringy mucus 
which adheres to the parts and can be drawn into 
long strings (compare, Hyd., Lys.). 

Complaints occurring in hot weather. 

Liability to take cold in open air. 

Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, 
one appearing in the fall and the other in the spring ; 
rheumatism and dysentery alternate (Abrot). 

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KALI BICHROMICUM- {Continued). 

Pains : in small spots, can be covered with point of 
finger (Ign.) ; shift rapidly from one part to another 
(Kali s., L,ac c, Pnls.) ; appear and disappear suddenly 
(Bell., Ign., Mag. p.). 

Neuralgia every day at same hour (Chin. s.). 

Gastric complaints : bad effects of beer ; loss of ap- 
petite ; weight in pit of stomach ; flatulence ; < soon 
after eating ; vomiting of ropy mucus and blood ; 
round ulcer of stomach (Gym.). 

Nose : pressive pain in root of nose (in forehead and 
root of nose, Stict.) ; discharge of plugs, " clinkers ;" 
tough, ropy, green fluid mucus ; in clear masses, and 
has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharge 
ceases. 

Ulceration of septum, with bloody discharge or 
large flakes of hard mucus (Alum., Sep., Teuc). 

Diphtheria : pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, 
pearly, fibrinous, prone to extend downwards to 
larynx and trachea (L,ac c. — reverse of, Brom.). 

(Edematous, bladder-like appearance of uvula; 
much swelling, but little redness (Rhus). 

Cough : violent, rattling, with gagging from viscid 
mucus in the throat ; < when undressing (Hep.). 

Croup : hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of 
tough mucus or fibro-elastic casts in morning on 
awakening ; with dyspnoea, > by lying down (worse 
when lying down, Aral., L,ach.). 

Deep-eating ulcers in fauces ; often syphilitic. 

Headache : blurred vision or blindness precedes the 
attack (Gels., Lac d.) ; must lie down ; aversion to 



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KALI BICHROMICUM-(G«/m^). 

light and noise ; sight returns as headache increases 
(Iris, Nat., Lac d.). 

Prolapsus uteri, seemingly in hot weather. 

Sexual desire absent in fleshy people. 

Relations. — Compare : Brom., Hep., Iod. in croupy 
affections. 

After : Canth. or Carb. ac. has removed the scrap- 
ings, in dysentery. 

After : Iod. in croup, when hoarse cough, with 
tough membrane, general weakness and coldness are 
present ; Cal. in acute or chronic nasal catarrh. 

Ant. t. follows well in catarrhal affections and skin 
diseases. 

Aggravations. — Heat of summer ; hot weather. 

Amelioration. — Skin symptoms are better in cold 
weather (reverse of, Alum, and Pet.). 



KALI BROM ATUM. 

Potassium Bromide. K. Br. 

Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity ; acts 
better in children than in adults. 

Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire 
body ; staggering, uncertain gait ; feels as if legs were 
all over sidewalk. 

Nervous, restless ; cannot sit still, must move about 
or keep occupied ; hands and fingers in constant 
motion; fidgety hands (fidgety feet, Zinc.) ; twitching 
of fingers. 

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KALI BROMATUM-(Gh//m^). 

Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melan 
cholic delusions. 

Loss of memory ; forgets how to talk ; absent- 
minded ; had to be told trie word before lie could 
speak it (Anac). 

Depressed, low-spirited, anxious, u feel as if they 
would lose their minds." 

Incoordination of muscles (Gels.) ; nervous weak- 
ness or paralysis of motion and numbness. 

Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and 
grief, loss of property or reputation, from business 
embarrassments (Hyos.). 

Night terrors of children (Kali p.) ; grinding teeth 
in sleep, screams, moans, cries ; horrible dreams, can- 
not be comforted by friends. Somnambulism (Sil.). 

Spasms : from fright, anger or emotional causes in 
nervous plethoric persons ; during parturition, teeth- 
ing, whooping-cough, Bright's disease. 

Epilepsy : congenital, syphilitic, tubercular ; usually 
a day or two before menses ; at new moon ; headache 
follows attack. 

Cholera infantum, with reflex irritation of brain, 
before effusion ; first stage of hydrocephaloid. 

Daily colic in infants about 5 A. m. (at 4 p. m., Col., 

Lye). 

Nervous cough during pregnancy ; dry, hard, almost 
incessant, threatening abortion (Con.). 

Stammering ; slow, difficult speech (Bov., Stram.). 

Acne : simplex, indurata, rosacea ; bluish-red, pus- 
tular, on face, chest, shoulders ; leaves unsightly scars 
(Carbo an.) ; in young fleshy persons of gross habits. 

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KALI BROMATUM- {Continued). 

Relations. — One of the antidotes for lead poison- 
ing. 

Often curative after Eugenia jambos in acne. 

KALI CARBONICDM. 

Potassium Carbonate. K 2 0,Co v 

For diseases of old people, dropsy and paralysis ; 
with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity (Am. c, 
Graph.). 

After loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in the 
anaemic (Cinch., Phos. ac, Phos., Psor.). 

Pains stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying 
on affected side (stitching, darting, better during rest 
and lying on painful side, Bry.). 

Cannot bear to be touched ; starts when touched 
ever so lightly, especially on the feet. 

Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bis., Lye. — 
desires to be alone, Ign., Nux). 

Bag-like swellings between upper eyelids and eye- 
brows. 

Weak eyes ; after coition, pollution, abortion, measles. 

Stomach : distended, sensitive ; feels as if it would 
burst ; excessive flatulency, everything she eats or 
drinks appears to be converted into gas (Iod.). 

Nosebleed when washing the face in the morning 
(Am. c, Arn.). 

Toothache only when eating ; throbbing ; < when 
touched by anything warm or cold. 

Backache, sweating, weakness ; after abortion, labor, 

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KALI CARBONICUM- {Continued). 

metrorrhagia ; when eating ; while walking feels as if 
she mnst give up and lie down. 

Cough : dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or 
pus which must be swallowed ; spasmodic with gag- 
ging or vomiting of ingesia ; hard, white or smoky 
masses fly from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.). 

Feels badly, week before menstruation ; backache, 
before and during menses. 

Labor pains insufficient ; violent backache ; wants 
the back pressed (Caust.). 

Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending for- 
ward or by rocking ; worse from 2 to 4 A. M. 

Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can 
scarcely get well without this anti-psoric. — Hahne- 
mann. 

Difficult swallowing ; sticking pain in pharynx as 
of a fish-bone (Hep., Nit. ac); food easily gets into 
the windpipe ; pain in back when swallowing. 

Constipation : stool large, difficult, with stitching, 
colic pains an hour or two before. 

Heart : tendency to fatty degeneration (Phos.); as 
if suspended by a thread (Lach.). 

Very much inclined to take cold. 

Relations. — Complementary : Carbo veg. 

Compare : Bry., Lye, Nat. m., Nit. ac, Stan. 

Follows well : after, Kali s., Phos., Stan, in loose, 
rattling cough. 

Will bring on the menses, when Nat. m., though 
apparently indicated, fails. — Hahnemann. 



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KAUHIA LATIFOUA. 

Mountain Laurel. Ericacece. 

Adapted to acute neuralgia, rheumatism, gouty 
complaints, especially when heart is involved as a se- 
quel of rheumatism or gout. 

In heart diseases that have developed from rheuma- 
tism, or alternate with it. 

Pains sticking, darting, pressing, shooting in a 
downward direction (Cac. — upward, Led.); attended 
or succeeded by numbness of affected part (Aeon., 
Cham., Plat). 

Severe stitching pain in r. eye and orbit (1. eye, 
Spig.); stiffness in muscles, pain < when turning the 
eyes (Spig.); begins at sunrise, < at noon and leaves 
at sunset (Nat. m.). 

Rheumatism : pains intense, change places suddenly, 
going from joint to joint ; joint hot, red, swollen ; 
worse from least movement. 

Vertigo when stooping or looking down (Spig.). 

Pulse slow, scarcely perceptible (35 or 40 per 
minute); pale face and cold extremities. 

Relations. — Similar : to, Led., Rhod., Spig., in 
rheumatic affections and gout. 

It follows Spig. well in heart disease. 



KREOSOTUM. 

Kreosote. A Distillation of Wood Tar. 

Dark complexion, slight, lean, ill-developed, poorly 

nourished, overgrown ; very tall for her age (Phos.). 

Children : old looking, wrinkled (Abrot); scrofulous 

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KRBOSOTUM— ( Continued ) . 

or psoric affections ; rapid emaciation (Iod.); post 
climacteric diseases of women (Lach.). 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; small wounds bleed freely 
(Crot, Lach., Phos.); flow passive, in epistaxis, hemop- 
tysis, hematuria ; in typhoid, followed by great pros- 
tration ; dark, oozing, after the extraction of a tooth 
(Ham.). 

Roaring and humming in ears, with deafness, before 
and during menses. 

Corrosive, fetid, ichorous discharges from mucous 
membranes ; vitality greatly depressed. 

Itching, so violent toward evening as to drive one 
almost wild (itching, without eruption, Dolichos). 

Painful dentition ; teeth begin to decay as soon as 
they appear ; gums bluish-red, soft, spongy, bleeding, 
inflamed, scorbutic, ulcerated. 

Vomiting : of pregnancy, sweetish water, with 
ptyalism ; of cholera, during painful dentition ; inces- 
sant with cadaverous stool ; in malignant affections of 
stomach. 

Severe headache before and during menses (Sep.). 

Menses : too early, profuse, protracted ; pain during, 
but < after it ; flow on lying down, cease on sitting 
or walking about ; cold drinks relieve menstrual 
pains ; flow intermits, at times almost ceasing, then 
commencing again (Sulph.). 

Incontinence of urine ; can only urinate when lying; 
copious, pale ; urging, cannot get out of bed quick 
enough (Apis, Petros.) ; during first sleep (Sep.), from 
which child is roused with difficulty. 



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KREOSOTIJM-(CmA»«^ ). 

Smarting and burning during and after micturition 
(Sulph.). 

Leucorrhcea : acrid, corrosive, offensive ; worse be- 
tween periods (Bo v., Bor.); has the odor of green corn ; 
stiffens like starch, stains the linen yellow. 

Lochia : dark, brown, lumpy, offensive, acrid ; al- 
most ceases then freshens up again (Con., Sulph.). 

Violent corrosive itching of pudenda and vagina. 

Relations. — Kreosote is followed well by Ars., 
Phos., Sulph., in cancer and diseases of a malignant 
tendency. 

Carbo veg. and Kreosote are inimical. 

Aggravation. — In the open air ; cold weather ; 
when growing cold ; from washing or bathing with 
cold water ; rest, especially when lying. 

Amelioration. — Generally better from warmth. 



LACMESIS. 

Surukuku, Snake Poison. Ophidia. 

Persons of a melancholy temperament, dark eyes, 
and a disposition to low spirits and indolence. 

Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and 
red hair (Phos.). 

Better adapted to thin and emaciated than to fleshy 
persons ; to those who have been changed, both men- 
tally and physically, by their illness. 

Climacteric ailments : hemorrhoids, hemorrhages ; 
hot flushes and hot perspirations ; burning vertex 

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L*ACHESIS — ( Continued ) . 

headache, especially at or after the menopause (Sang., 
Sulph.). 

Ailments from long lasting grief ; sorrow, fright, 
vexation, jealousy or disappointed love (Aur., Ign., 
Phos. ac). 

Women who have not recovered from the change 
of life, "have never felt well since that time." 

Left side principally affected ; diseases begin on the 
left and go to the right side — left ovary, testicle, chest. 

Great sensitiveness to touch ; throat, stomach, ab- 
domen ; cannot bear bed-clothes or night-dress to touch 
throat or abdomen, not because sore or tender, as in 
Apis or Bell., but clothes cause an uneasiness, make 
her nervous. 

Intolerance of tight bands about neck or waist. 

Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility. 

Drunkards with congestive headaches and hemor- 
rhoids ; prone to erysipelas or apoplexy. 

Headache : pressing or bursting pain in temples < 
from motion, pressure, stooping, lying, after sleep ; 
dreads to go to sleep because she wakens with such a 
headache. 

Rush of blood to head : after alcohol ; mental emo- 
tions ; suppressed or irregular menses ; at climaxis ; 
left-sided apoplexy. 

Weight and pressure on vertex (Sep.) ; like lead, 
in occiput. 

All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after 
sleep, or the aggravation wakes him from sleep ; sleeps 
into the aggravation ; unhappy, distressed, anxious, 
sad < in morning on waking. 

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L*ACHESIS — ( Continued ) . 

Mental excitability ; ecstacy, with almost prophetic 
perceptions ; with a vivid imagination ; great lo- 
quacity (Agar., Stram.) ; wants to talk all the time; 
jumps from one idea to another ; one word often leads 
into another story. 

Constipation : inactivity, stool lies in rectum, with- 
out urging ; sensation of constriction of sphincter 
(Caust, Nit. ac). 

Menses at regular time ; too short, scanty, feeble ; 
pains all relieved by the flow ; always better during 
menses (Zinc). 

Piles : with scanty menses ; at climaxis ; strangu- 
lated ; with stitches shooting upward (Nit. ac). 

The least thing coming near mouth or nose inter- 
feres with breathing ; wants to be fanned, but slowly 
and at a distance (rapidly, Carbo v.). 

As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops 
(Am. c, Grind., L,ac c, Op.). 

Great physical and mental exhaustion ; trembling 
in whole body, would constantly sink down from 
weakness ; worse in the morning (Sulph., Tub.). 

Epilepsy ; comes on during sleep (Bufo) ; from loss 
of vital fluids, onanism, jealousy. 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; small wounds bleed easily 
and profusely (Crot., Kreos., Phos.) ; blood dark, non- 
coagulable (Crot., Sec). 

Boils, carbuncles, ulcers with intense pain (Tar.) ; 
malignant pustules ; decubitus ; dark, bluish, purple 
appearance ; tend to malignancy. 

Bad effects of poison wounds ; post-mortem (Pyr.). 

Sensation as of a ball rolling in the bladder. 

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I^ACHESIS— {Continued ). 

Fever annually returning ; paroxysm every spring 
(Carbo v., Sulph.), after suppression by quinine the 
previous autumn. 

Fever : typhoid, typhus ; stupor or muttering delir- 
ium, sunken countenance, falling of lower jaw ; tongue 
dry, black, trembles, is protruded with difficulty or 
catches on the teeth when protruding ; conjunctiva 
yellow or orange color ; perspiration cold, stains 
yellow, bloody (L,yc). 

Diphtheria and tonsillitis, beginning on the left and 
extending to right side (Xac c, Sabad.) ; dark purple 
appearance (Naja) ; < by hot drinks, after sleep ; 
liquids more painful than solids when swallowing 
(Bell., Bry., Ign.) ; prostration out of all proportion to 
appearance of throat. 

Relations. — Complementary : Hep., Lye, Nit. ac. 

Incompatible : Acet. ac, Carb.' ac. 

In intermittent fever Nat. m. follows L,ach. well 
when type changes. 

Aggravation. — After sleep ; contact ; extremes of 
temperature ; acids ; alcohol ; cinchona ; mercury ; 
pressure or constriction ; sun's rays ; spring ; summer. 

LAC CANINUM. 

Dog's Milk. 

For nervous, restless, highly sensitive organisms. 

Symptoms erratic, pains constantly flying from one 
part to another (Kali bi., Puis.) ; changing from side 
to side every few hours or days. 

Very forgetful, absent-minded ; makes purchases 

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I.AC CAXINUM— ( Continued ) . 

and walks away without them (Agnus, Anac, Caust., 

Nat). 

In writing, uses too many words or not the right 
ones ; omits final letter or letters in a word ; cannot 
concentrate the mind to read or study ; very nervous 
(Bov., Graph., L,ach., Nat. c, Sep.). 

Despondent, hopeless ; thinks her disease incurable ; 
has not a friend living ; nothing worth ' living for ; 
could weep at any moment (Act, Aur., Cal., L,ach.). 

Cross, irritable ; child cries and screams all the 
time, especially at night (Jal., Nux, Psor.). 

Fears to be alone (Kali c.) ; of dying (Ars.) ; of be- 
coming insane (L/il.) ; of falling down stairs (Bor.) 

Chronic "blue" condition; everything seems so 
dark that it can grow no darker (Lye., Puis.). 

Attacks of rage, cursing and swearing at slightest 
provocation (L,il., Nit. ac.) ; intense ugliness ; hateful. 

Coryza, with discharge of thick, white mucus. 

One nostril stuffed up, the other free and discharg- 
ing ; these conditions alternate ; discharge acrid, nose 
and lip raw (Arum, Cepa). 

Diphtheria and tonsillitis ; symptoms change re- 
peatedly from side to side. 

Sore throats and cough are apt to begin and end 
with menstruation ; yellow or white patches ; pains 
shoot to ear. 

Throat: sensitive to touch, externally (Lach.) ; < 
by empty swallowing (Ign.) ; constant inclination to 
swallow, painfuL almost impossible (Mer.) ; pains ex- 
tend to ears (Hep., Kali bi.) ; begins on left side 
(Lach.). 

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Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheritic deposit, 
chancres and ulcers. 

Very hungry, cannot eat enough to satisfy ; as 
hungry after eating as before (Case, Cal., Cina, Lye, 
Stront). 

Sinking at epigastrium ; faint7iess in stomach. 

Menses : too early ; too profuse ; flow in gushes, 
bright red, viscid and stringy (dark, black, stringy, 
Croc.) ; breasts swollen, painful, sensitive before and 
during (Con.). 

Discharge of flatus from vagina (Brom., Lye., Nux 
m., Sang.). 

Breasts : inflamed, painful ; < by least jar and 
towards evening ; must hold them firmly when going 
up or down stairs (Bry.). 

Serviceable in almost all cases when it is required 
to dry up milk (Asaf. — to bring back or increase it, 
(Lac d.). 

Sensation as if breath would leave her when lying 
down ; must get up and walk (Am. c, Grind., L,ach.). 

Loss of milk while nursing, without any known 
cause (Asaf.). 

Palpitation violent when lying on left side, > turn- 
ing on right (Tab.). 

Sexual organs easily excited, from touch, pressure 
on sitting, or friction by walking (Cinn., Coff., Mur., 
Plat). 

When walking, seems to be walking on air ; when 
lying, does not seem to touch the bed (Asar.). 

Backache : intense, unbearable, across super-sacral 
region, extending to r. natis and r. sciatic nerve ; < 

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I. AC CANINUM- {Continued). 

by rest and on first moving (Rhus) ; spine aches from 
base of brain to coccyx, very sensitive to touch or press- 
ure (Chin, s., Phos., Zinc). 

Relations. — Similar : to, Apis, Con., Murex, Lach., 
Kali bi., Puis., Sep., Sulph. 

It generally acts best in single dose. 

Probably no remedy in the Materia Medica presents 
a more valuable pathogenesis in symptoms of the 
throat, or one that will better repay a careful study. 

Like Lachesis, this remedy has met with the most violent oppo- 
sition from prejudice and ignorance, which its wonderful thera- 
peutic powers have slowly, yet surely, overcome. It was success- 
fully used by Dioscorides, Pliny and Sextus in ancient times, and 
revived in New York by Reisig, Bayard and Swan in the success- 
ful treatment of diphtheria. Reisig was the first to potentize it. 



LAC DEFLORATUM. 

Skijnmed Milk. 

The successful treatment of Diabetes and Bright's Disease with 
skim milk, by Donkin, was the hint which led Dr. Swan to 
potentize and prove it. Every symptom here given has been veri- 
fied in the cure of the sick. 

Diseases with faulty and defective nutrition with 
reflex affections of nervous centers. 

Despondent ; does not care to live ; has no fear of 
death but is sure he is going to die. 

American sick headache: begins in forehead, extend- 
ing to occiput, in morning on rising (Bry.); intense 
throbbing, with nausea, vomiting, blindness and 
obstinate constipation (Epig., Iris, Sang.); < noise, 
light, motion (Mag. m., Sil.); during menses (Kreos., 

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I* AC DEFLORATUM-( Continued ) . 

Sep.); great prostration ; > pressure, by bandaging 
head tightly (Arg. n., Puis.); copious, pale urine. 

Globus hystericus : sensation of a large ball rising 
from stomach to throat, causing sense of suffocation 
(Asaf., Kal.). 

Vomiting : incessant, no relation to eating ; first of 
undigested food, intensely acid, then of bitter water ; 
of pregnancy (I^ac. ac, Psor.). 

Constipation : with ineffectual urging (Anac, Nux); 
feces dry and hard (Bry., Sulph.); stool large, hard, 
great straining, lacerating anus ; painful, extorting 
cries. 

A woman had taken 10 or 12 enemas daily, often 
passed 4 or 5 weeks without an evacuation, constipa- 
tion of 15 years' standing. 

Menses : delayed ; suppressed, by putting hands in 
cold water (Con.); drinking a' glass of milk will 
promptly suppress flow until next period (compare, 
Phos.). 

Great restlessness, extreme and protracted suffering 
from loss of sleep (Coc, Nit. ac). 

Feels completely exhausted, whether she does any- 
thing or not ; great fatigue when walking. 

Sensation : as if cold air was blowing on her, even 
while covered up ; as if sheets were damp. 

Dropsy : from organic heart disease ; from chronic 
liver complaint ; far advanced albuminuria ; following 
intermittent fever. 

Obesity ; fatty degeneration. 



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LKOUM PALUSTRE. 

Marsh Tea. Ericacece. 

Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis ; consti- 
tutions abused by alcohol (Colch.). 

Hemorrhage into anterior chamber after iridectomy. 

Contusions of eye and lids especially if much ex- 
travasation of blood ; ecchymosis of lids and con- 
junctiva. 

Rheumatism or gout ; begins in lower limbs and 
ascends (descends, Kal.) ; especially if brought to a 
low asthenic condition by abuse of Colchicum ; joints 
become the seat of nodosities and " gout stones," 
which are painful ; acute and chronic arthritis. 

Affects left shoulder- and right hip-joint (Agar., 
Ant. t, Stram.). 

Emaciation of affected parts (Graph.). 

Pains are sticking, tearing, throbbing ; rheumatic 
pains are < by motion ; < at night, by warmth of 
bed and bed-covering (Mer.) ; > only when holding 
feet in ice-water (Sec). 

Complaints of people who are cold all the time ; 
always feel cold and chilly ; lack of animal or vital 
heat (Sep., Sil.) ; the wounded parts especially are 
cold to touch. 

Parts cold to touch, but not cold subjectively to 
patient. 

In some affections, warmth of bed intolerable on 
account of heat and burning of limbs. 

Swelling : of feet, up to knees ; of ankle with un- 
bearable pain when walking, as from a sprain or false 
step ; ball of great toe swollen, painful ; in heels as 
if bruised. 

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LEDUM PALUSTRE-(G»»ft»«<fflf). 

Intense itching of feet and ankles, < from scratch- 
ing and warmth of bed (Puis., Rhus). 

Easy spraining of ankles and feet (Carbo an.). 

Punctured wounds by sharp-pointed instruments, 
as awls, nails (Hyper.) ; rat bites, stings of insects, 
especially mosquitoes. 

Red pimples or tubercles on forehead and cheeks, 
as in brandy drinkers, stinging when touched. 

Long-remaining discoloration after injuries ; "black 
and blue" places become green. 

Relations. — Compare : Arm, Crot. t, Ham., Bellis, 
Ruta, in traumatism ; Con., in long-lasting effects of 
injuries. 



UUUM TIGRINUM. 

Tiger Lily. LiliacecB. 

Affects principally the left side of the body (Lach., 
Thuja). 

Tormented about her salvation (Lye., Sulph., Ver.), 
with ovarian or uterine complaints ; consolation < . 

Wild, crazy feeling on vertex ; confused ideas. 

Profound depression of spirits ; can hardly avoid 
weeping ; is very timid, fearful and weeps much ; in- 
different about what is being done for her. 

Anxious : about the disease ; fears the symptoms 
indicate an organic affection ; marked in both sexes. 

Disposed to curse, strike, to think obscene things 
(Anac, Lac c.) ; alternates with uterine irritation. 

Listless, yet cannot sit still ; restless, yet does not 

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UL, IUM TIGRINUM- {Continued). 

want to walk ; must keep busy to repress sexual desire. 

Desire to do something, hurried manner, yet has no 
ambition ; aimless, hurried motion (Arg. n.). 

Fears : being alone, insanity, heart disease ; fears 
she is incurable ; some impending calamity or disease. 

Headaches and mental ailments depending on 
uterine irritation or displacements. Menstrual irregu- 
larities and irritable heart. 

Cannot walk on uneven ground. 

Pains in small spots ; constantly shifting (Kali bi.). 

Frequent urging to urinate ; if desire is not attended 
to, sensation of congestion in chest. 

Bearing-down sensation ; in abdomen and pelvis, as 
though all organs would escape (Lac c, Murex, Sep.) ; 
> supporting vulva with hand ; with palpitation. 

Menses : early, scanty, dark, offensive ; flows only 
when moving about ; ceased to flow when she ceased 
to walk (Canst. — on lying down, Kreos., Mag. a). 

Sensation as if heart was grasped in a vise (Cac.) ; 
as if blood had all gone to the heart ; feels full to 
bursting ; inability to walk erect. 

Pulsations over whole body, and full, distended feel- 
ing, as if blood would burst through the vessels (^Esc). 

Palpitation, fluttering : faint, hurried, anxious sen- 
sation about apex ; sharp pain in 1. chest ; awakens at 
night ; irregular pulse ; extremities cold and covered 
with cold sweat ; < after eating, lying on either side 
(on left side, L,ach.). 

Rapid heart-beat, 150 to 170 per minute. 

Constant desire to defecate and urinate (with pro- 
lapsus), from pressure in rectum. 

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UUUM TIGRINUM- ( Continued ) . 

Weak and atonic condition of ovaries, uterus and 
pelvic tissues, resulting in anteversion, retroversion, 
sub-involution (Helon., Sep.) ; slow recovery after 
labor ; nearly always with constipation, from inactivity. 

Relations. — Compare: Act, Agar., Cac, Helon., 
Murex, Nat. p., Plat, Sep., Spig., Tar. 



LOBELIA INFLATA. 

Indian Tobacco. Lobeliacece. 

Best adapted to persons of light hair, blue eyes, fair 
complexion ; inclined to be fleshy. 

Gastric derangements, extreme nausea and vomiting; 
morning sickness ; spasmodic asthma ; pertussis, with 
dyspnoea threatening suffocation. 

Headache : gastric, with nausea, vomiting and great 
prostration ; following intoxication ; < afternoon 
until midnight ; sudden pallor with profuse sweat 
(Tab.); < by tobacco or tobacco smoke. 

Vomiting : face bathed with cold sweat ; of preg- 
nancy, profuse salivation (Lac. ac. — at night, Mer.j; 
chronic with good appetite, with nausea, profuse 
sweat and marked prostration. 

Faintness, weakness and an indescribable feeling at 
epigastrium, from excessive use of tea or tobacco. 

Urine : of a deep orange red color ; copious red 
sediment. 

Dyspnoea : from constriction of middle of chest ; < 
with every labor pain, seems to neutralize the pains ; 
< by exposure to cold or slightest exertion, going up 
or down stairs (Ipec). 

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LOBELIA I1VFLATA— {Continued). 

Sensation of congestion, pressure or weight in chest 
as if blood from extremities was filling it, > by rapid 
walking. 

Sensation as if heart would stand still ; deep seated 
pain at base (at apex, Lil.). 

Sacrum : extreme sensitiveness ; cannot bear the 
slightest touch, even of a soft pillow ; sits leaning 
forward to avoid contact with clothes. 

Relations. — Compare : Ant. t, Ars., Ipec, Tab., 
Ver. 

Aggravation. — Slightest motion ; touch, cold. 

Amelioration. — Chest pain by walking rapidly. 

For the bad effects of drunkenness in people with 
light hair, blue or grey eyes, florid complexion, corpu- 
lent, Lobelia bears the same relation that Nux vomica 
does to persons of the opposite temperament. 



LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM. 

Wolffs Foot ; Club Moss. Lycopodiacece. 

For persons intellectually keen, but physically weak ; 
upper part of body emaciated, lower part semi-drop- 
sical ; predisposed to lung and hepatic affections (Cal. , 
Phos., Sulph.); especially the extremes of life, chil- 
dren and old people. 

Deep-seated, progressing, chronic diseases. 

Pains ; aching-pressure, drawing ; chiefly right-sided, 
< four to eight P. M. 

Affects right side, or pain goes from right to left ; 
throat, chest, abdomen, liver, ovaries. 

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JL YCOPODIUM CLAVATUM-( Continued ) . 

Children, weak, emaciated ; with well-developed 
heads but puny, sickly bodies. 

Baby cries all day, sleeps all night (rev. of, Jal., 
Psor.). 

Ailments from fright, anger, mortification, or vexa- 
tion with reserved displeasure (Staph.). 

Avaricious, greedy, miserly, malicious, pusilani- 
mous. 

Irritable ; peevish and cross on walking ; ugly, 
kick and scream ; easily angered ; cannot endure op- 
position or contradiction ; seeks disputes ; is beside 
himself. 

Weeps all day, cannot calm herself ; very sensitive, 
even cries when thanked. 

Dread of men ; of solitude, irritable and melancholy ; 
fear of being alone (Bis., Kali c, L4I.). 

Cqmplexion pale, dirty, unhealthy ; sallow, with 
deep furrows, looks older than he is ; fan-like motion 
of alte nasi (Ant. t.). 

Catarrh : dry, nose stopped at night, must breathe 
through the mouth (Am. c, Nux, Samb.); snuffles, 
child starts from sleep rubbing its nose ; of root of 
nose and frontal sinuses ; crusts and elastic plugs 
(Kali bi., Marum). 

Diphtheria ; fauces brownish-red, deposit spreads 
from right tonsil to left, or descends from nose to right 
tonsil ; < after sleep and from cold drinks (from 
warm drinks, L,ach.). 

Everything tastes sour ; eructations, heartburn, 
waterbrash, sour vomiting (between chill and heat). 



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I.YCOPODIUM tt+AYA.TUML— (Continued). 

Canine hunger ; the more he eats, the more he 
craves ; head aches as if he does not eat. 

Gastric affections ; excessive accumulation of flatu- 
lence ; constant sensation of satiety ; good appetite, 
but a few mouthfuls fill up to the throat, and he 
feels bloated ; fermentation in abdomen, with loud 
grumbling, croaking, especially lower abdomen (upper 
abdomen, Carbo v. — entire abdomen, Cinch.); fulness, 
not relieved by. belching (Cinch.). 

Constipation : since puberty ; since last confine- 
ment ; when away from home ; of infants ; with in- 
effectual urging, rectum contracts and protrudes dur- 
ing stool, developing piles. 

Red sand in urine, on child's diaper (Phos.); child 
cries before urinating (Bor.); pain in back, relieved 
by urinating ; renal colic, right side (left side, Berb.). 

Impotence : of young men, from onanism or sexual 
excess ; penis small, cold, relaxed ; old men, with 
strojig desire but imperfect erections ; falls asleep dur- 
ing an embrace ; premature emissions. 

Dryness of vagina ; burning in, during and after 
coition (Lys.); physometra. 

Discharge of blood from genitals during every stool. 

Foetus appears to be turning somersaults. 

Hernia : right sided, has cured many cases especially 
in children. 

Pneumonia ; neglected or maltreated, base of r. 
lung involved especially ; to hasten absorption or ex- 
pectoration. 

Cough deep, hollow, even raising mucus in large 
quantities affords little relief. 

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I.YCOPOOIUM CX AV ATTJM— ( Continued ) . 

One foot hot and the other cold (Cinch., Dig., Ipec). 

Waking at night feeling hungry (Cina, Psor.). 

Relations . — Complementary : Iodine. 

Bad effects : of onions, bread ; wine, spirituous 
liquors ; tobacco smoking and chewing (Ars.). 

Follows well : after, Calc, Carbo v., Lach., Sulph. 

It is rarely advisable to begin the treatment of a 
chronic disease with L,yc. unless clearly indicated; it 
is better to give first another antipsorie. 

Lye. is a deep-seated, long-acting remedy, and should 
rarely be repeated after improvement begins. 

Aggravation. — Nearly all diseases from 4 to 8 P. 
M. (Hell. — from 4 to 9 p. m., Col., Mag. p.). 

Amelioration. — Warm food and drinks ; from un- 
covering the head ; loosening the garments. 



i^Yssm.* 

The Saliva of a Rabid Dog. A Nosode. 

The sight or sound of running water or pouring 
water aggravates all complaints. 

Iyyssophobia ; fear of becoming mad. 

Bluish discoloration of wounds (L,ach.). 

Complaints resulting from abnormal sexual desire 
(from abstinence, Con.). 

Mental emotion or mortifying news always makes 
him worse. 

Cannot bear heat of sun (Gels., Glon., Lach., Nat). 

*Ziemsen suggested Lyssin as a substitute for Hydrophobinum, 
Encyclopedia, vol. iii, p. 472. 

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L/VSSIN — ( Continued ) . 

Convulsions : from dazzling or reflected light from 
water or mirror (Stram.); from even thinking of fluids 
of any kind ; from slightest touch or current of air. 

Headache : from bites of dogs, whether rabid or 
not ; chronic, from mental emotion or exertion ; < by 
?ioise of running water or bright light. 

Saliva ; tough, ropy, viscid, frothy in mouth and 
throat, with constant spitting (Hydr.). 

Sore throat, constant desire to swallow (L,ac c, 

Mer.). 

Difficulty in swallowing, even spasm of oesophagus 
from swallowing liquids ; gagging when swallowing 
water. 

Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water 
(Canth., Sulph.); urine scanty, cloudy, contains sugar. 

Prolapsus uteri ; many cases of years' standing cured. 

Sensitiveness of vagina, rendering coition painful. 

Relations. — Compare : Bell., Canth., Hyos., Stram., 
in hydrophobia. 

Aggravation. — Sight or sound of water ; bright, 
dazzling light (Stram.) ; carriage-riding (Coc. — better 
from, Nit. ac). 



MAGNESIA CARBONICA. 

Carbonate of Magnesia. MgCO v jH 2 0. 

For persons, especially children, of irritable disposi- 
tion, nervous temperament (Cham.) ; lax fibre ; sour 
smell of whole body (Rheum). 

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MAGXKSIA CARBONICA- {Continued^). 

The whole body feels tired and painful, especially 
the legs and feet ; aching, restless. 

Spasmodic affections of stomach and intestines (Col., 
Mag. p.), increased secretion from mucous membranes. 

Unrefreshing sleep, more tired on rising than when 
retiring (Bry., Con., Hep., Op., Sulph.). 

Inordinate c?'aving for meat in children of tuber- 
culous parentage. 

Heartburn : sour, belching, eructations, taste and 
vomiting ; of pregnancy. 

Pains : neuralgic, lightning-like, < left side (Col.); 
insupportable during repose, must get up and walk 
(Rhus) ; toothache, during pregnancy < at night. 

Pain on vertex as if the hair were pulled (Kali n., 
Phos.). 

Menses : preceded by sore throat (L,ac a), labor-like 
pain, cutting colic, backache, weakness, chilliness ; 
flows only at night or when lying, ceases when walk- 
ing (Am. m., Kreos. — rev. of, Iyil.) ; acrid, dark, pitch- 
like ; difficult to wash off (Med.). 

Diarrhoea : preceded by cutting, doubling-up colic ; 
occurs regularly every three weeks • stools green, 
frothy, like scum of a frog-pond ; white, tallow-like 
masses are found floating in stool ; the milk passes 
undigested in nursing children. 

When crude magnesia has been taken to " sweeten 
the stomach ;" if the symptoms correspond, the poten- 
tized remedy will often relieve. 

Relations. — Complementary : to, Chamomilla. 

Aggravation. — Change of temperature ; every three 
weeks ; rest ; milk, during menses. 

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MAGNESIA CARBONICA-( Continued ) . 

Amelioration. — Warm air, but worse in warmth of 
bed (Led., Mer. — better in warmth of bed, Ars.). 

MAG1VKSIA MURIATICA. 

Chloride of Magnesia. Mg. CI. 

Especially adapted to diseases of women ; spas- 
modic and hysterical complaints, complicated with 
uterine diseases; who have suffered for years from 
attacks of indigestion or biliousness. 

Children : during difficult dentition are unable to 
digest milk ; it causes pain in stomach and passes un- 
digested ; puny, rachitic, who crave sweets. 

Great sensitiveness to noise (Ign., Nux, Ther.). 

Headache : every six weeks, in forehead and around 
the eyes ; as if it would burst ; < from motion and 
in open air ; > from lying down, strong pressure 
(Puis.), and wrapping up warmly (Sil., Stron.). 

Great tendency of head to sweat (Cal., Sanic, Sil.). 

Continual rising of white froth into the mouth. 

Eructations, tasting like rotten eggs, like onions 
(breath smells of onions, Sinap.). 

Toothache ; unbearable when food touches the teeth. 

Pressing pain in liver, when walking and touching 
it, liver hard, enlarged, < lying on right side (Mer., 
Kali a). 

Constipation : stool hard, scanty, large, knotty, like 
sheep's dung ; difficult to pass ; crumbling at verge 
of anus (Am.m., Nat. m.) ; of infants during dentition. 

Urine ; pale, yellow, can only be passed by bearing 

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MAGNESIA MURIATICA-(G?»//««^). 

down with abdominal muscles ; weakness of bladder. 

Menses : with great excitement at every period ; 
flow black, clotted ; spasms and pains < in back when 
walking, extend into thighs ; metrorrhagia, < at night 
in bed, causing hysteria (Act., Caul.). 

Iveucorrhcea : after exercise ; with every stool ; with 
uterine spasm ; followed by metrorrhagia ; two weeks 
after menses for three or four days (Bar., Bov., Con.). 

Palpitation and cardiac pains while sitting, > by 
moving about (compare, Gels.). 

Relations. — Compare : Cham, in the diseases of 
children. 



MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA. 

Phosphate of Magnesia. 

Is best adapted to thin, emaciated persons of a 
highly nervous organization ; dark complexion. 

Affections of right side of body ; head, ear, face, 
chest, ovary, sciatic nerve (Bell., Bry., Chel., Kali c, 
Lye, Pod.). 

Pains : sharp, cutting, stabbing ; shooting, stitching; 
lightning-like in coming and going (Bell.) ; intermit- 
tent, paroxysm becoming almost unbearable, driving 
patient to frenzy ; rapidly changing place (Lac c, 
Puis.), with a constricting sensation (Cac, Iod., 
Sulph.) ; cramping, in neuralgic affections of stomach, 
abdomen and pelvis (Caul., Col.). 

Great dread : of cold air ; of uncovering ; of touch- 

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MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA-( Contin tied ) . 

ing affected part ; of cold bathing or washing ; of 
moving. 

Languid, tired, exhausted ; unable to sit up. 

Complaints from standing in cold water or working 
in cold clay (Cal.). 

Ailments of teething children ; spasms during den- 
tition, no fever (with fever, hot head and skin, Bell.). 

Headache : begins in occiput and extends over head 
(Sang., Sil.) ; of school girls ; face red, flushed ; from 
mental emotion, exertion or hard study; < 10 to n 
A. M. or 4 to 5 P. M. ; > by pressure and external heat. 

Neuralgia : of face, supra or infra-orbital ; r. side ; 
intermittent, darting, cutting < by touch, cold air, 
pressure > by external heat. 

Toothache : at night ; rapidly shifting ; < eating, 
drinking, especially cold things ; > by heat ( > by 
cold, Bry., CofL, Fer. p.). 

Spasms or cramp of stomach, with clean tongue, as 
if a band was drawn tightly around the body. 

Colic : flatulent, forcing patient to bend double ; > 
by heat, rubbing and hard pressure (Col., Plumb.) ; of 
horses and cows when Colocynth fails to >. 

Menses : early ; flow dark, stringy ; pains < before, 
> when flow begins (I^ach., Zinc.) ; pains darting, 
like lightning, shooting, < r. side, > by heat and 
bending double ; vaginismus. 

Enuresis : nocturnal ; from nervous irritation ; urine, 
pale, copious ; after catheterization. 

Cramps : of extremities ; during pregnancy ; of 
writers, piano or violin players. 



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MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA-( Continued ) . 

Relations. — Compare : Bell., Caul., Col., L,yc., 
L,acc., Puis.; Cham, its vegetable analogue. 

Sometimes acts best when given in hot water. 

Aggravation. — Cold air ; a draft of cold air or cold 
wind ; cold bathing or washing ; motion ; touch. 

Amelioration. — Bending double; heat; warmth; 
pressure (burning pain > by heat, Ars.). 



MEDORRHINUM. 

The Gonorrhceal Vims. A Nosode. 

For the constitutional effects of mal-treated and 
suppressed gonorrhoea, when the best selected remedy 
fails to relieve or permanently improve. 

For persons suffering from gout, rheumatism, 
neuralgia and diseases of the spinal cord and its 
membranes — even organic lesions ending in paralysis 
— which can be traced to a sycotic origin. 

For women, with chronic ovaritis, salpingitis, pelvic 
cellulitis, fibroids, cysts, and other morbid growths 
of the uterus and ovaries, especially if symptoms 
point to malignancy, with or without sycotic origin. 

For scirrhus, carcinoma or cancer, either acute or 
chronic in development, when the symptoms cor- 
respond and a history of sycosis can be traced. 

Bears the same relation in deep-seated sycotic 
chronic affections of spinal and sympathetic nervous 
system, that Psorinum does to deep-seated affections 
of skin and mucous membranes. 

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MEDORRHIN€M-( Continued ) . 

Children, pale, rachitic ; dwarfed and stunted in 
growth (Bar. c); mentally, dull and weak. 

Great heat and soreness, with enlargement of lym- 
phatic glands all over body. 

Consumptive languor ; fatigue ; great general de- 
pression of vitality. 

Pains : arthritic, rheumatic, a sequel of suppressed 
gonorrhoea (Daph. od., Clem.); constricting, seem to 
tighten the whole body (Cac.) ; sore all over, as if 
bruised (Arn., Eup.). 

Trembling all over (subjective), intense nervousness 
and profound exhaustion. 

State of collapse, wants to be fanned all the time 
(Carbo v.); craves fresh air ; skin cold, yet throws off 
the covers (Camph., Sec); cold, and bathed with cold 
perspiration (Ver.). 

Mind. — Weakness of memory; cannot remember 
names, words or initial letters ; has to ask name of 
most intimate friend ; even forgets his own name. 

Cannot spell correctly ; wonders how a well-known 
name is spelled. 

Constantly loses the thread of conversation. 

Great difficulty in stating her symptoms, question 
has to be repeated as she loses herself. 

Cannot speak without weeping. 

Anticipates death ; always anticipating, feels matters 
most sensitively before they occur and generally cor- 
rectly. 

Irritated at trifles ; cross during the day, exhilerated 
at night. 

Very impatient ; peevish. 

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MEDORRHIN€M-( Continued ) . 

Anxious, nervous, extremely sensitive ; starts at the 
least sound. 

Time passes too slowly (Alum., Arg. n.,'Can. I.). 

Is in a great hurry ; when doing anything is in 
such a hurry she gets fatigued. 

Many symptoms are < when thinking of them 
(pains return as soon as he thinks about them, Ox. ac.). 

Head. — Intense burning pain in brain, < in cere- 
bellum ; extends down spine. 

Head feels heavy and is drawn backwards. 

Sensation of tightness and contraction ; extends 
down whole length of spine. 

Headache and diarrhoea from jarring of cars. 

Throat. — Sensation as if she had taken a severe 
cold, with distressing aching in bones ; throat sore 
and swollen, deglutition of either liquids or solids im- 
possible (Mer.). 

Throat constantly filled with thick, gray or bloody 
mucus from posterior nares (Hyd.). 

Appetite. — Ravenous hunger immediately after eat- 
ing (Cina, Lye, Psor.). 

Constant thirst, even dreams she is drinking. 

Insatiate craving: for liquor, which before she 
hated (Asar.) ; for salt (Cal., Nat.) ; sweets (Sulph.) ; 
for ale, ice, acids, oranges, green fruit. 

Bowels. — Stools : tenacious, clay-like, sluggish, 
cannot strain from a sensation of prolapse of rectum 
(Alum.). 

Constriction and inertia of bowels with ball-like 
stools (Lach.). 

Can only pass stool by leaning very far back ; very 

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MEDORRHINUM-(a»ft«^ ) . 

painful, as if there was a lump on posterior surface of 
sphincter ; so painful as to cause tears. 

Sharp, needle-like pains in rectum. 

Oozing of moisture from anus, fetid odor of fish 
brine (Caust, Hep.). 

Urinary Organs. — Severe pain (backache) in renal 
region, > by profuse urination (L,yo). 

Renal colic ; intense pain in ureters, with sensation 
of passage of calculus (Berb., Lye, Ocim. c.) ; craving 
for ice. 

Nocturnal enuresis : passes enormous quantity of 
ammoniacal, high colored urine in bed every night ; 
< by over- work or over-play, extremes of heat or 
cold ; when the best selected remedy fails ; with a 
history of sycosis. 

Painful tenesmus of bladder and bowels when 
urinating. 

Sexual Organs. — Menses : profuse, very dark, clot- 
ted ; stains difficult to wash out (Mag. a). 

Metrorrhagia : at climacteric ; profuse, for weeks, 
flow dark, clotted, offensive ; in gushes, on moving ; 
with malignant disease of uterus. 

Intense menstrual colic, with drawing up of knees 
and terrible bearing down labor-like pains ; must press 
feet against support, as in labor. 

Intense pruritus of labia and vagina < by thinking 
of it. 

Breasts and nipples sore and sensitive to touch. 

Breasts cold as ice to touch, especially the nipples, 
rest of body warm (during menses). 

Respiratory Organs. — Asthma : choking caused by 

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MEDORRHINUM-( Continued ) . 

a weakness or spasm of epiglottis ; larynx stopped so 
that no air conld enter, only > by lying on face and 
protruding tongue. 

Soreness of larynx as if ulcerated. 

Dyspnoea and sense of constriction ; can inhale with 
ease, but no power to exhale (Samb.). 

Cough : dry, incessant, severe ; painful, as if mucous 
membrane was torn from larynx ; deep, hollow like 
coughing in a barrel ; < at night, from sweets, on 
lying down ; > by lying on stomach. 

Sputa : albuminous, frothy ; small, green, bitter 
balls ; viscid, difficult to raise. 

Incipient consumption ; severe pains in middle 
lobes. 

Back and Extremities. — Pain in back between 
scapulae ; whole length of spine sore to touch (Chin. s.). 

Intense burning heat, beginning in nape of neck 
and extending down spine, with a contractive stiff- 
ness, < by stretching. 

Rheumatism of top of shoulder and arm ; pains ex- 
tend to fingers, < by motion (right, Sang. — left, Fer.). 

Lumbar vertebrae painful and sensitive to touch. 

Pain in sacrum, coccyx, and back of hips, running 
around and down limbs. 

Pains in legs, from hips to knees ; only when walk- 
ing. 

Heaviness of legs, feel like lead ; walking very 
difficult, legs are so heavy ; legs give way. 

Lower limbs ache all night, preventing sleep. 

Intensely restless and fidgety legs and feet (Zinc). 



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MEDORRHINUM-( Continued ) . 

Terrible suffering in legs and arms during an elec- 
trical storm. 

Aching in legs, with inability to keep them still in 
bed, < when giving up control of himself, when relax- 
ing, in trying to sleep. 

Coldness of legs and feet ; of hands and fore arms. 

Drawing, contracting sensation in hamstrings and 
ankles ; cramps in calves and soles (Cup.). 

Ankles easily turn when walking (Carbo an., Led.). 

Burning of hands and feet, wants them uncovered 
and fanned (Lach., Sulph.). 

Almost entire loss of nervous force in legs and 
arms ; exhausted by slightest effort. 

Painful stiffness of every joint in body. 

Deformity of finger joints; large, puffy knuckles; 
swelling and painful stiffness of ankles ; great tender- 
ness of heels and balls of feet ; swellings of all joints 
were puffy, like windgalls. 

Relations. — Compare : Ipec, dry cough ; Camph., 
Sec, Tab., Ver., in collapse ; Pic. ac, Gels., inability 
to walk ; Aloe, Sulph., morning diarrhoea. 

The burning feet of Sulphur and restless fidgety 
legs and feet of Zinc, are both found at the same time 
in Medorrhinum. 

Aggravation. — When thinking of it (Helon., Ox. 
ac.) ; heat, covering ; stretching ; thunder storm ; least 
movement ; sweets ; from daylight to sunset (rev. of 
Syph.). 

Amelioration. — At the sea shore (rev. of Nat.) ; 
lying on stomach ; damp weather (Caust, Nux). 



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MEULOTUS ALBA. 

Sweet Clover. Leguminosce. 

Congestions, relieved by hemorrhage. 

Engorgement of blood-vessels in any part or organ. 

Violent congestive or nervous headaches ; epistaxis 
affords relief (Bufo, Ferr. p., Magn. s.). 

Convulsions: of nervous children during dentition 
(Bell.); infantile spasms, eclampsia, epilepsy. 

Religious melancholy with an intensely red face ; 
insanity, in early stages, to relieve brain from pressure 
and irritation. 

Nosebleed preceded by intense redness, flushing of 
face and throbbing of carotids (Bell.) ; with general 
relief. 

Very red face precedes hemorrhage from every 
organ. 

Constipation : difficult, painful, constriction in anus ; 
throbbing, fulness ; no desire until there is a large ac- 
cumulation (Alum.). 

Relations. — Compare : Amyl., Ant. c. in epistaxis 
after headache, but does not relieve ; Bell., Glon., 
Sang, in congestive headache, red face, hot head, etc. 

Aggravation. — Approach of a storm ; rainy, change- 
able weather. 



MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. 

Buck Bean. Gentianacece. 

Complaints from abuse of Cinchona and Quinine. 
Fevers, in which the cold stage predominates ; cold- 
ness felt most acutely in abdomen and legs. 

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MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA- ( Contin • d) . 

Headache ■ pressing in vertex from above down- 
wards, > during hard pressure with hand (Ver.) ; as 
of a heavy weight pressing upon the head at every step 
(Cac., Glon., Lach.); < ascending (Cal.) ; often with 
icy coldness of hands and feet (Cal., Sep.). 

Anxiety about the heart as if some evil was im- 
pending. 

Tension : in root of nose ; in arms, hands, fingers ; 
in skin, as if several sizes too small and was crowded 
into it by force. 

Relations. — Compare:- Cac, Cal., Gels., Sep., Mag. 
m., Paris. 

Follow well : Caps., Lach., Lye, Puis., Rhus, Ver. 

Aggravation. — During rest ; lying down. 

Amelioration. — Pressure on affected part. 



MERCURIUS. 

Quicksilver. The Element. 

Best adapted for light-haired persons ; skin and 
muscles lax. 

In bone diseases, pains worse at night ; glandular 
swellings with or without suppuration, but especially 
if suppuration be too profuse (Hep., Sil.). 

Cold swellings ; abscesses, slow to suppurate. 

Profuse perspiration attends nearly every com- 
plaint, but does not relieve ; may even increase the 
suffering (profuse perspiration relieves, Nat. m., Psor., 
Ver.;. 

Great weakness and trembling from least exertion. 

Breath and body smell foul (Psor.). 

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MERCURIUS— ( Continued ) . 

Hurried and rapid talking (Hep.). 

Catarrh. : with much sneezing ; fluent, acrid, cor- 
rosive ; nostrils raw, ulcerated ; yellow-green, fetid, 
pus-like ; nasal bones swollen ; < at night and from 
damp weather. 

Toothache : pulsating, tearing, lacerating, shoot- 
ing into face or ears ; < in damp weather or evening 
air, warmth of bed, from cold or warm things ; > from 
rubbing the cheek. 

Crowns of teeth decay, roots remain (crowns intact, 
roots decay, Mez.). 

Ptyalism ; tenacious, soapy, stringy, profuse, fetid, 
coppery, metallic-tasting saliva. 

Tongue : large, flabby, shows imprint of teeth 
(Chel., Pod., Rhus) ; painful, with ulcers ; red, or 
white. 

Intense thirst, although the tongue looks moist and 
the saliva is profuse (dry mouth, but no thirst, Puis.). 

Mumps, diphtheria, tonsillitis with profuse offensive 
saliva ; tongue large, flabby with, imprints of teeth ; 
mapped tongue (Lach., Nat., Tarax.). 

Diphtheria : tonsils inflamed, uvula swollen, elon- 
gated, constant desire to swallow ; membrane thick, 
gray, shred-like borders adherent or free. 

Dysentery : stool slimy, bloody, with colic and 
fainting ; great tenesmus during and after, not > 
by stool, followed by chilliness and a " cannot finish " 
sensation. The more blood, the better indicated. 

Quantity of urine voided is larger than the amount 
of water drank ; frequent urging to urinate. 

Nocturnal emissions stained with blood (Led., Sars.). 

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MERCURIUS— ( Continued ) . 

Iveucorrhoea : acrid, burning, itching with rawness ; 
always worse at night ; pruritus, < from contact of 
urine which must be washed off (Sulph.). 

Morning sickness ; profuse salivation, wets the pil- 
low in sleep (Lac. ac). 

Mammae painful, as if they would ulcerate at every 
menstrual period (Con., Lac c.) ; milk in breasts in- 
stead of the menses. 

Cough : dry, fatiguing, racking ; in two paroxysms, 
worse at night and from warmth of bed ; with utter 
inability to lie on right side. 

Affects lower lobe of r. lung ; stitches through to 
back (Chel., Kali c). 

Suppuration of lungs, after hemorrhages of pneu- 
monia (Kali c). 

Ulcers on the gums, tongue, throat, inside of the 
cheek, with profuse salivation ; irregular in shape, 
edges undefined ; have a dirty, unhealthy look ; lar- 
daceous base surrounded with a dark halo ; apt to run 
together (syphilitic ulcers are circular, attack the pos- 
terior parts of mouth, throat, and have well-defined 
edges, are surrounded with a coppery hue, and do not 
extend from their primary seat). 

Trembling extremities, especially hands ; paralysis 
agitans. 

Relations. — Follows well : after, Bell., Hep., Lach., 
Sulph., but should not be given before or after Silicea. 

If given in low (weak) potencies hastens rather than 
aborts suppuration. 

The bad effects of Mer. are antidoted by Aur., Hep., 



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MERCURIUS— ( Continued ) . 

L,ach., Mez., Nit. ac, Sulph., and by a strong (high) 
potency of Mer., when the symptoms correspond. 

Compare : Mezereum, its vegetable analogue for 
bad effects of large doses or of too frequent repetition. 

Ailments from sugar, insect stings, vapors of arsenic 
or copper. Diseases occuring in winter. 

Aggravation. — At night ; wet, damp weather 
(Rhus); in autumn, warm days and cold, damp 
nights ; lying on right side ; perspiring. 

Mercury is < by heat of, but > by rest in, bed. 

Arsenic is > by heat of, but < by rest in, bed. 



MBRCURIUS CORROSIVUS. 

Corrosive sublimate. HgCl r 

Diseases of men, syphilitic ; ulcers, with corroding, 
acrid pus ; Bright's disease. 

Dysentery and summer complaints of intestinal 
canal, occurring from May to November. 

Tenesmus : of rectum, not > by stool (> by stool, 
Nux) ; incessant, persistent ; stool hot, scanty, bloody, 
slimy, offensive; shreds of mucous membrane and 
terrible cutting, colicky pains. 

Tenesmus : of bladder, with intense burning in 
urethra ; urine hot, burning, scanty or suppressed ; in 
drops with great pain ; bloody, brown, brick-dust sed- 
iment ; albuminous. 

Gonorrhoea ; second stage, greenish discharge, < at 
night ; great burning and tenesmus. 



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MBRCURIUS OULCIS. 

Calomel. Hgz Cl v 

Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes, espe- 
cially of the eye and ear. 

Catarrhal inflammation of middle ear (Kali m.). 

Eustachian tube closed ; catarrhal deafness and otor- 
rhcea in psoric children ; deafness of old age (Kali m.). 

Acute affections of prostate after maltreated stricture. 

Deafness and catarrhal affections of nares, throat, 
and pharynx, from mercurial amalgam fillings. 

Diarrhoea : of children ; stools grass-green ; like 
chopped eggs ; profuse, causing soreness of anus. 

MERCURIUS CYANIDE. 

Cyanide of Mercury. Hg ( CJV 2 ). 

Malignant diphtheria with intense redness of fauces 
and great difficulty of swallowing ; pseudo-membra- 
nous formation extends all over fauces and down 
throat ; putrid, gangrenous diphtheria, with phage- 
denic ulceration ; membranous croup. 

Great weakness ; extreme prostration ; cannot stand 
up from weakness. 

When it corresponds to the genus epidemicus, like 
every other remedy, is effective as a prophylactic. 

Uf ERCURIUS PROXO IODIDE. 

Iodide of Mercury. Hgfv 

Diphtheritic and throat affections where the cervi- 
cal and parotid glands are enormously swollen ; mem- 
brane begins on or is < on right side ; < by warm 
drinks, and empty swallowing (L,ach.). 

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MKRCURIUS PROTO IODIDE-(G«^V). 

Tongue : thick, yellow coating at base (Kali bi. — 
golden yellow coating at base, Nat. p. ; dirty or greenish- 
gray coating at base, Nat. s.); tip and edges red ; right 
side of throat and neck most affected. 

For Hunterian (hard) chancre, secondary symptoms 
rarely follow if given in proper dose ; great swelling 
of inguinal glands, no disposition to suppurate. 



MERCURIUS BINIODIOE. 

Biniodide of Mercury. Hg I 2 . 

Diphtheritic and glandular affections of left side ; 
fauces dark red ; solids or liquids painful when swal- 
lowing ; exudation slight, easily detached ; cases at- 
tending epidemic scarlet fever, ulcers on fauces or 
tonsils ; glands enlarged ; greenish tough lumps from 
pharynx or posterior nares. 

Tubercular pharyngitis. 



MERCURIUS SOMJBIUS. 

Hahnemami's Soluble Mercury. Black Oxide. 

Nervous affections after suppressed discharges 
especially in psoric patients (Asaf.). 

Glandular and scrofulous affections of children. 

Otorrhcea : bloody, offensive discharge, with stab- 
bing tearing pain ; < r. side, at night and lying on 
affected side. 

Furuncles and boils in external meatus (Pic. ac). 

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MKRCURIUS SOLUBIUS— ( Continued ) . 

Polypi and fungus excrescences in external meatus 
(Mar. v., Thuja). 

Acrid nasal secretion, having odor of old cheese ; 
nostrils, red, raw, ulcerated. 

Epistaxis : when coughing ; at night during sleep ; 
hangs in a dark clotted string from the nose, like an 
icicle. 

Gonorrhoea : with phymosis or chancroids ; green 
discharge, < at night ; urging to urinate ; intolerable 
burning in forepart of urethra when passing last few 
drops ; prepuce hot, swollen, ©edematous and sensitive 
to touch ; of a torpid character, with threatening or 
suppurating bubo. 

Chancre : primary ; regular indurated Hunterian, 
with lardaceous base ; with cheesy bottom and in- 
verted red edges ; with phymosis or paraphymosis ; 
deep, round, penetrating, eating through fraenum and 
prepuce ; bleeding, painful, yellowish fetid discharge. 

Hahnemann's remedy for syphilis and diseases of 
the genito-urinary tract. Is rarely indicated if the 
tongue is dry. 

Diseases of the skin ; intolerable biting, itching, 
over body, as from insect bites, < in evening and 
from warmth of bed ; becomes pleasant on scratching. 

Weakness and weariness of limbs ; sore, bruised. 

MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS. 

Sulphate of Mercury. HgSO±. 

Hydrothorax, if occurring from heart or liver dis- 
eases ; dyspnoea, has to sit, cannot lie down. Ex- 

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MERCURIUS SUI.PHURICUS— ( Continued ) . 

tremities swollen ; stool loose, watery, causing severe 
burning and soreness ; burning in chest. 

" When it acts well it produces a profuse, watery 
diarrhoea with great relief to the patient ; it is as im- 
portant as Arsenicum in hydrothorax." — Ljppe. 

Relations. — Compare : Ars., Cinnab., Dig., Sulph. 



MEZEREUM. 

Daphne Mezereum. Thymelacece. 

For light-haired, irresolute persons of a phlegmatic 
temperament. 

Eczema and itching eruptions after vaccination. 

Hypochondriacal and despondent ; indifferent to 
everything and every one ; angry at trifles and per- 
fectly harmless things, but is soon sorry for it. 

Toothache : in carious teeth (Kreos.) ; feel elon- 
gated, dull pain when biting on them and when 
touched with tongue, < at night ; > with mouth 
open and drawing in air; roots decay (rev. of, Mer.). 

Headache, violent after slight vexation ; painful on 
the slightest touch ; right sided. 

The head is covered with thick, leather-like crust, 
under which thick and white pus collects here and 
there ; hair is glued and matted together ; pus after a 
time is ichorous, becomes offensive and breeds vermin. 

Ulcers with thick, yellowish-white scabs, under 
which thick, yellow pus collects. 

Vesicles appear around the ulcers, itch violently, 
burn like fire (Hep.) ; shining, firey-red areola around. 

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MEZEREUM— ( Continued ) . 

Linen or charpie sticks to the ulcers, they bleed 
when it is torn away. 

Eczema : intolerable itching, < in bed and from 
touch ; copious, serous exudation. 

Neuralgic burning pains after zona. 

Bones, especially long bones, inflamed, swollen ; 
nightly pains going from above downwards ; after 
abuse of Merc, after venereal diseases ; caries ; exosto- 
ses, tumors soften from within out. 

Pain in periosteum of long bones < at night in bed, 
least touch, in damp weather (Mer., Phyt.). 

Child scratches face continually, which is covered 
with blood ; eruptions moist ; itching worse at night ; 
inflammatory redness of face. 

Relations. — Compare : Caust, Guaiac, Phyt., Rhus. 

Aggravation. — Cold air ; cold washing ; at night ; 
touch or motion ; bad effects of mercury or alcohol. 

Epidemics occurring in January and February often 
call for Mezereum. 



MII.EEFOI.IUM. 

Yarrow. Composites. 

Ailments: from over-lifting; over-exertion, or a fall. 

Vertigo ; when moving slowly, but not when taking 
violent exercise. 

Hemorrhages : painless, without fever ; bright red, 
fluid blood (Aeon., Ipec, Sab.) ; from lungs, bronchi, 
larynx, mouth, nose, stomach, bladder, rectum, uterus ; 
of mechanical origin (Arn.); of wounds (Ham.). 

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MIULEFOMUM— {Continued ). 

Wounds which bleed profusely, especially after a 
fall (Arn., Ham.). 

Hemoptysis : after injury ; in incipient phthisis ; in 
hemorrhoidal patients ; from a ruptured blood vessel. 

Painless drainage, from nose, lungs, uterus ; after 
labor or abortion ; after great exertion ; after miscar- 
riage. . Preventive in post-partum hemorrhage. 

Menses : early, profuse, protracted ; suppressed, 
with colic pain in abdomen. 

Iyeucorrhcea of children from atony (Cal.). 

Cough : with raising of bright blood ; in suppressed 
menses or hemorrhoids ; with oppression and palpita- 
tion ; after a fall from a height (Arn.); after violent 
exertion ; with blood, daily at 4 P. M. (Lye). 

Relations. — Compare : Erecht. in epistaxis and 
hemoptysis, blood bright red. 

Follows well : after, Aeon, and Arn. in hemorrhages. 



MUREX PURPUREA. 

A Mollusk. Muricidtz. 

Persons of a melancholy temperament. 

For the sufferings during climacteric (%ach., Sep., 
Sulph.). Great depression of spirits. 

Sinking, all gone sensation, in stomach (Sep.). 

Least contact of parts, causes violent sexual excite- 
ment (excessive sexual irritation driving to self 
abuse, Orig., Zinc). 

Violent excitement in sexual organs, and excessive 
desire for an embrace (rev. of, Sep.). 

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MIJREX PURPUREA- {Co?itinued ) . 

Sore pain in uterus ; a distinct sensation of a womb 
(Helon., Lys.). 

Bearing down sensation, as if internal organs would 
be pushed out, must sit down and cross limbs to > 
pressure (but no sexual desire, Sep.). 

Menses : irregular, early, profuse, protracted, large 
clots. 

Iveucorrhcea : < mental depression, happier when 
leucorrhcea is worse. 

Relations. — Compare: L,il., Plat, in nymphomania ; 
Sep. in bearing down sensation, but has no sexual 
erethism. 



MURIATIC ACID. 

Hydrochloric Acid. H CI. 

Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark 
complexion. 

Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin 
(Nux); restlessness and vertigo. 

Diseases of an asthenic type, with moaning, uncon- 
sciousness, fretfulness. 

Ulceration with fungus-like growths and pseudo- 
like membranous deposits of intestinal tract. 

Great debility : as soon as he sits down his eyes 
close ; lower jaw hangs down ; slides down in bed. 

Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue 
and sphincter ani are paralyzed. 

Malignant affections of mouth : studded with ulcers, 
deep, perforating ; having a black or dark base ; of- 

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MURIATIC ACID— {Continued). 

fensive, foul breath. ; intense prostration ; diphtheria, 
scarlatina, cancer. 

Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat (Nit. ac). 

If the anus be very sensitive either with or without 
hemorrhoids ; anus sore during menses. 

Hemorrhoids : swollen, blue ; sensitive and pain- 
ful to touch. ; appears suddenly in children; too sore 
to bear least touch, even the sheet is uncomfortable. 
Prolapse while urinating. 

Diarrhoea : stool involuntary while urinating ; on 
passing wind (Aloe); cannot urinate without having 
the bowels move at the same time. 

Urine passes slowly ; bladder weak, must wait a 
long time ; has to press so that anus protrudes. 

Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals 
(Murex). 

Typhoid or typhus : deep stupid sleep ; unconscious 
while awake ; loud moaning or muttering ; tongue 
coated at edges, shrunken, dry, leather-like, paralyzed; 
involuntary fetid stools while passing urine ; sliding 
down in bed ; pulse intermits every third beat. 

Palpitation of heart is felt in the face. 

Freckles ; eczema Solaris. 

Relations. — Follows well : after, Bry., Mer., Rhus. 

Cures the muscular weakness following excessive 
use of opium and tobacco. 



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NAJA TRIPUOIA1VS. 

Cobra virus. Elapidce. 

Suicidal insanity, broods constantly over imaginary 
troubles (Aur.). 

Simple hypertrophy of heart. 

For restoring a heart damaged by acute inflamma- 
tion, or from relief of sufferings of chronic hypertrophy 
and valvular lesions. 

Irritating, dry, sympathetic cough in the acute stage 
of rheumatic carditis, or chronic organic lesions 
(Spon.). 

Threatened paralysis of heart, post-diphtheritic. 

Pulse irregular in force, but regular in rhythm. 

Inability to speak with choking, nervous, chronic 
palpitation, especially after public speaking ; pain < 
by carriage riding or lying on side. 

Severe stitching pain in region of heart. 

Relations. — Compare : Ars., Cac, Crot, Lach., 
M yg-, Spig. 



NATRUM CARBONICUM. 

Carbonate of Soda. NA 2 , CO^ ioH.,0. 

Constitutions with aversion to open air and dislike 
to exercise, mental or physical ; imbecility. 

Great debility : caused by heat of summer (Ant. a); 
exhaustion /><?/// least effort, mental or physical ; ready 
to drop after a walk ; chronic effects of sunstroke. 

Chronic effects of sunstroke ; now, with return of 
hot weather, suffers from headaches. 

Emaciation with pale face and blue rings around 

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NATRIJM CARBONICUM--(G»ft»K^). 

the eyes, dilated pupils ; dark urine ; anaemic ; milky, 
watery skin and great debility. 

Inability to think or to perform any mental labor, 
causes headache ; feels stupefied if he tries to exert 
himself ; comprehension slow, difficult. 

Intolerable melancholy and apprehension ; is wholly 
occupied with sad thoughts. 

Attacks of anxiety and restlessness during a thun- 
der storm (Phos.) ; < from music (Sab.). 

Headache : from slightest mental exertion ; from 
sun or working under gaslight (Glon., Iyach.) ; with 
tension, in nape or occiput before menses ; head feels 
too large, as if it would burst. 

Face pale, with blue rings around the eyes ; eyelids 
swollen ; catarrh ; mucus in throat and posterior nares ; 
constantly hawking to clear the throat ; dropping into 
the throat from posterior nares. 

Catarrh : extends to posterior nares and throat ; 
hawking much thick mucus from throat ; profuse dis- 
charge during day, stopped at night (Nux). 

Thick, yellow, green, offensive, musty, hard dis- 
charge from nose ; often ceasing after a meal. 

Aversion to milk ; diarrhoea from it. 

Bearing down as if everything would come out 
(Agar., Iyil., Mur., Sep.) ; heaviness, < sitting, > by 
moving. 

Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace, 
causing sterility. 

Easy dislocation and spraining of ankle (Led.) ; so 
weak that it gives way ; foot bends under (Carbo an., 
Nat. m). 

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NATRl^tt CARBONICUM- {Continued ). 

Relations. — Compare : Nat. s., for yeast-like vom- 
iting ; Cal., Sep. 

Follows well : after, Sep. in bearing down. 

Aggravations. — From music; in the sun; excessive 
slimmer heat ; mental exertion ; a thunder storm. 



NATRUM MURIATICIJM. 

Common Salt. Na CI. 

For the anaemic and cachectic ; whether from loss 
of vital fluids — profuse menses, seminal losses — or 
mental affections. 

Great emaciation ; losing flesh while living well 
(Abrot., Iod.) ; throat and neck of children emaciate 
rapidly during summer complaint (Sanic). 

Great liability to take cold (Cal., Kali a). 

Irritability : child cross when spoken to ; crying 
from slightest cause ; gets into a passion about trifles, 
especially when consoled with. 

Awkward, hasty, drops things from nervous weak- 
ness (Apis, Bov.). 

Marked disposition to weep ; sad weeping mood, 
without cause (Puis.), but consolation from others < 
her troubles. 

Headache : anaemic, of school girls (Cal. p.) ; from 
sunrise to sunset ; left-sided clavus ; as if bursting ; 
with red face, nausea and vomiting before, during and 
after menses ; as though a thousand little hammers 
were knocking in the brain during fever ; > by per- 
spiration. 

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NATRUM MURUTICUlI-(Cb«//«K^ ). 

Headache ; beginning with blindness (Iris, Kali bi.) ; 
with zig-zag dazzling, like lightning in eyes, ushering 
in a throbbing headache ; from eye strain. 

Lachrymation ; tears stream down the face when- 
ever he coughs (Huphr.). 

Hay fever : squirming sensation in the nostril, as of 
a small worm ; brought on by exposure to hot sun or 
intense summer heat. 

Sensation as of a hair on the tongue (Sil.). 

Tongue : mapped, with red insular patches ; like 
ringworm on sides (Ars., L,ach., Mer., Nit. ac, Tarax.); 
heavy, difficult speech, children slow in learning to 
walk. 

Constipation : sensation of contraction of anus ; 
torn, bleeding, smarting afterwards ; stool, dry, hard, 
difficult, crumbling (Am. c, Mag. m.) ; stitches in 
rectum (Nit. ac.) ; involuntary, knows not whether 
flatus or faeces escape (Aloe, Iod., Mur. ac, Olean., 
Pod.). 

Urine : involuntary when walking, coughing, laugh- 
ing (Caust, Puis., Scilla) ; has to wait a long while 
for urine to pass, if others are present (Hep., Mur. 
ac.) ; cutting in urethra after (Sars.). 

Seminal emissions : soon after coition, with in- 
creased desire ; weakness of organs with retarded 
emission during an embrace ; impotence, spinal irri- 
tation, paralysis, after sexual excesses. 

Pressing, pushing towards genitals every morning ; 
must sit down to prevent prolapsus (Iyil., Mur., Sep.). 

Fluttering of the heart : with a weak faint feeling 
< lying down (Lach.). 

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NATRUM MXJRIATICUM— {Continued). 

The heart's pulsations shake the body (Spig.). 

The hair falls out when touched, in nursing women 
(Sep.); face oily, shiny, as if greased (Plb., Thuja). 

For the bad effects : of anger (caused by offence) ; 
acid food, bread, quinine, excessive use of salt ; of cau- 
terizations of all kinds with the silver nitrate ; of grief, 
fright, vexation, mortification or reserved displeasure 
(Staph.). 

Hangnails : skin around the nails dry and cracked 
(Graph., Pet.) ; herpes about anus and on borders of 
hair at nape of neck (in bend of knees, Hep., Graph.). 

Warts on palms of hands (sore to touch, Nat. c). 

Dreams of robbers in the house, and on waking 
will not believe to the contrary until search is made 
(Psor.) ; of burning thirst. 

Fever blisters, like pearls about the lips ; lips dry, 
sore and cracked, ulcerated (Nit. ac). 

Painful contractions of the hamstrings (Am. m., 
Caust., Guaiac). 

Craving for salt (Cal., Caust.) ; great aversion to 
bread. 

Eczema; raw, red, inflamed, especially in edges of 
hair ; < from eating too much salt, at sea shore, or 
from ocean voyage. 

Urticaria, acute or chronic ; over whole body ; espe- 
cially after violent exercise (Apis, Cal., Hep., Sanic, 
Urt). 

Intermittents ; paroxysm at 10 or 1 1 a. m ; old, 
chronic, badly treated cases, especially after suppres- 
sion by quinine ; headache, with unconsciousness dur- 
ing chill and heat ; sweat > pains. 

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XATRXJM MURIATICUM— (Continued). 

Relations. — Complementary : to, Apis ; acts well 
before and after it. 

Natrnm mur. is the chronic of Ignatia, which is its 
vegetable analogue. 

Is followed by Sepia and Thuja. 

Cannot often be repeated in chronic cases without 
an intercurrent, called for by the symptoms. 

Should never be given during fever paroxysm. 

If vertigo and headache be very persistent, or pros- 
tration be prolonged after Natrum, Nux will relieve. 

Aggravation.-^^/ 10 or n a. m. ; at the seashore or 
from sea air ; heat of sun or stove ; mental exertion, 
talking, writing, reading ; lying down. 

Amelioration. — In the open air (Apis, Puis.) ; cold 
bathing ; going without regular meals ; lying on right 
side (on painful side, Bry., Ign., Puis.). 



NATRUM SULPHURICUM. 

Sodium Sulphate. Ala OSO s ioAq. 

Ailments which are < by, or which depend upon, 
dampness of weather, damp houses or cellars (Aran.). 

Patient feels every change from dry to wet ; cannot 
tolerate sea air, nor eat plants that thrive near water ; 
a constitution in which the gonorrhceal poison is most 
pernicious ; recovers slowly from every sickness. 

Every spring ; skin affections reappear (Psor.). 

Inability to think (Nat. a). 

Sad, gloomy, irritable ; worse in morning ; dislikes 
to speak or be spoken to (Iod., Sil.). 

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NATRUM SULPHURIClJ]»I-(0?»tf««^). 

Depressed; lively music makes her sad; satiety of 
life ; must use great self-control to prevent shooting 
himself. 

Mental traumatism ; mental effects from injuries to 
head ; chronic brain effects of blows, falls. 

Granular lids : like small blisters (Thuja) ; green 
pus and terrible photophobia ; gonorrheal or sycotic. 

Nosebleed during menses (instead of menses, Bry., 
Puis.). 

Toothache > by cold water, cool air (Coff., Puis.). 

Dirty, greenish-gray or brown coating on tongue. 

Diarrhoea : sudden, urging, gushing, much flatus ; 
on first rising and standing on the feet ; after a spell of 
wet weather ; living or working in basements. 

Gonorrhoea : greenish-yellow y painless, thick dis- 
charge (Puis.) ; chronic or suppressed (thick, green, 
Kali iod.). 

Dyspnoea ; desire to take a deep breath during 
damp, cloudy weather. 

Humid asthma in children ; with every change to 
wet tv eat her ; with every fresh cold ; always worse in 
damp, rainy weather ; sputa green, greenish, copious 
(greenish grey, Cop.). 

Sycotic pneumonia ; lower lobe of left lung ; great 
soreness of chest, during cough, has to sit up in bed 
and hold the chest with both hands (Nic. — r. lung, 
Bry.). 

Spinal meningitis: violent crushing gnawing pains 
at base of brain ; head drawn back ; spasms with men- 
tal irritability and delirium ; violent congestion of 
blood to head ; delirium ; opisthotonos. 

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NATRUM SULPHURICU1I-(G?»A»«^ ). 

Relations. — Compare : Nat. m. and Sulph., which 
are very similar ; Thnja and Merc, in syphilis and 
sycosis occurring in hydrogenoid constitutions. 

Aggravation. — Damp basements or dwellings ; 
damp weather (Aran., Ars. i., Dul.) ; rest; lying. 

Amelioration. — Dry weather ; pressure ; sitting up 
(cough) ; changing position (but > in wet weather, 
Caust.) ; open air. 

Must change position frequently, but it is painful 
and gives little relief (Caust.). 



]MTRIC ACID. 

Nitric acid. H N O y 

Especially suited to thin persons of rigid fibre, dark 
complexions, black hair and eyes — the brunette rather 
than the blonde — nervous temperament. 

Persons suffering with chronic diseases who take 
cold easily ; are easily disposed to diarrhoea ; rarely to 
those who suffer with constipation. 

Old people with great weakness and diarrhoea. 

Excessive physical irritability. 

Pains : sticking, pricking as from splinters ; sud- 
denly appearing and disappearing ; on change of tem- 
perature or weather ; during sleep ; gnawing here and 
there as from ulcers forming. 

Sensation : of a band around head, around the bones 
(Carb. ac, Sulph.) ; of a splinter in affected parts, 
ulcer, piles, throat, ingrowing toe nail, < on slightest 
contact. 

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NITRIC ACID— {Continued). 

Ailments : which depend on some virulent poison ; 
from mercury, syphilis, scrofula ; in broken-down 
cachectic constitutions. 

After continued loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety ; 
over-exertion of mind and body from nursing the sick 
(Coc.) ; anguish from the loss of his dearest friend ; 
indifference ; tired of life ; sadness before menses. 

Great anxiety about his disease ; constantly think- 
ing about his past troubles ; morbid fear of cholera 
(Ars.) ; depressed and anxious in the evening. 

Irritable, headstrong ; hateful and vindictive ; in- 
veterate, ill-willed, unmoved by apologies. 

Hardness of hearing > by riding in carriage or 
train (Graph.). 

Very sensitive to rattle of wagons over paved streets ; 
headache from pressure of hat (Cal. p., Carbo, Nat.). 

Ozena : green casts from the nose every morning. 

Diarrhcea : great straining but little passes, as if 
faeces remained and cannot be expelled (Alum.) ; pain 
as if rectum or anus were torn or fissured (Nat. m.) ; 
violent cutting pains after stool, lasting for hours 
(Rat., Sulph. — during and after, Mer.). 

Fissures in rectum ; tearing, spasmodic pains dur- 
ing stool ; lancinating, even after soft stools (Alumen, 
Nat, Rat). 

Urine : scanty, dark-brown, strong-smelling, " like 
horse's urine ;" cold when it passes ; turbid, looks like 
remains of a cider barrel. 

Ulcers : easily bleeding ; in corners of mouth (Nat.) ; 
splinter-like pains, especially on contact (Hep.) ; zig- 
zag, irregular edges ; base looks like raw flesh ; exu- 

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NITRIC ACID— {Continued). 

tierant granulations ; after mercury or syphilis or both, 
engrafted on a scrofulous base. 

Discharges : thin, offensive, acrid ; of a brown or 
dirty yellowish green color ; rarely laudable pus. 

Hemorrhage : from bowels in typhoid or typhus 
(Crot, Mur. ac.) ; after miscarriage or post-partum ; 
from over-exertion of body ; bright, profuse, or dark. 

Cracking: in ears, on masticating ; of the joints, on 
motion (Coc, Graph.). 

Warts, condylomata : sycotic or syphilitic ; large, 
jagged, pedunculated ; bleeding readily on washing ; 
moist, oozing ; sticking pain (Staph., Thuja). 

Affects especially the mucous outlets of the body 
where skin and mucous membrane join ; mouth, nose, 
rectum, anus, urethra, vagina (Mur. ac). 

Relations. — Complementary : Ars. and Calad. 

Inimical : to, L,achesis. 

Resembles : Ars. in morbid fear of cholera. 

Often difficult to distinguish from Mer.; but is 
adapted to black-haired people, while Mer. is more 
useful in light-haired persons. 

Relieves ailments resulting from abuse of mercury, 
especially if there be erethism ; bad effects of repeated 
doses of Digitalis. 

Follows well : Calc, Hep., Mer., Nat. c, Puis, or 
Thuja ; but is most effective after Kali c. 

Aggravation. — Evening and at night ; after mid- 
night ; contact ; change of temperature or weather ; 
during sweat ; on waking ; while walking. 

Amelioration. — While riding in a carriage (reverse 
of Coc). 

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NUX MOSCHATA. 

Nutmeg. Myristicacece. 

Adapted especially to women and children of a ner- 
vous hysterical temperament (Ign.); to people with a 
dry skin, who rarely perspire; complaints of preg- 
nancy. 

Weakness of old age ; dyspepsia of old people. 

Oversensitive : to light ; of hearing ; of smell ; to 
touch. 

All the ailments are accompanied by drowsiness 
and sleepiness (Ant. t., Op.) or an inclination to faint 
even from slight pain (Hep.); complaints cause sleepi- 
ness. 

Stupor and insensibility ; unconquerable sleep. 

Absence of mind ; cannot think ; great indifference 
to everything. 

Weakness or loss of memory (Anac, Lac c, Lye). 

Vanishing of thoughts while reading, talking or 
writing ; uses wrong words ; does not recognize well- 
known streets (Can. L, Lach.). 

Changeable humor ; one moment laughing, the next 
crying (Croc, Ign.); " sudden change from grave to 
gay, from lively to serene " (Plat.). 

Dryness of eyes ; too dry to close the lids. 

Great dryness of the mouth (Apis, Lach.); tongue 
so dry it adheres to roof of mouth ; saliva seemed like 
cotton ; throat dry, stiffened, no thirst (Puis.). 

Sensation of great dryness without real thirst and 
without actual dryness of the tongue. 

Great soreness of all the parts upon which one lies 
(Bap., Pyr.); tendency to bedsores. 

Hating a little too much causes headache; pain, 

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NIJX MOSCHATA-(G«//«^). 

fulness and distress in stomach ivhile eating or im- 
mediately after (Kali bi.). 

Abdomen enormously distended, after every meal. 

Diarrhoea: in summer, from cold drinks; epidemic 
in autumn, white stools (Colch.); from boiled milk ; 
during dentition ; during pregnancy ; with sleepiness 
and fainting; in autumn, epidemic, white, fetid 
(Colch.). 

At every menstrual nisus, mouth, throat and tongue 
become intolerably dry, especially when sleeping. 

Leucorrhcea in place of menses (Coc); patient 
awakened with dry tongue (L,ach.); physometra 
(I^ac c, Lye). 

Pain, nausea and vomiting ; during pregnancy ; 
from wearing pessaries. 

Sudden hoarseness, < from walking against the 
wind (Euph., Hep.). 

Cough caused by : getting warm in bed ; being 
overheated; during pregnancy (Con.); bathing; stand- 
ing in water ; living in cold, damp places (Nat. s.); 
loose after eating, dry after drinking. 

Sleep : irresistibly drowsy ; sleepy, muddled, as if 
intoxicated ; coma, lies silent, immovable ; eyes con- 
stantly closed (with stertorous breathing, Op.). 

Rheumatic affections ; from getting feet wet ; from 
exposure to drafts of air while heated (Aeon., Bry.);< 
in cold, wet weather, or cold wet clothes (Rhus); of 
left shoulder (Fer.). 

Backache, while riding in a carriage. 

Fatigue, must lie down after the least exertion. 

Relations. — Nux moschata antidotes mercurial in- 

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NUX MOSCHATA- {Continued). 

halation, lead colic, oil of turpentine, spirituous liquors, 
and especially the effects of bad beers. 

Aggravation.— Cold, wet, windy weather (Rhod.); 
weather changes ; cold food, water and cold washing ; 
carriage driving (Coc); lying on painful side (on 
painless side, Puis.). 

Amelioration. — In dry, warm weather ; warm room ; 
wrapping up warmly. 



NUX VOMICA. 

Poison Nut. Loganiacece. 

Adapted to thin, irritable, careful, zealous persons 
with dark hair and bilious or sanguine temperament. 
Disposed to be quarrelsome, spiteful, malicious ; nerv- 
ous and melancholic. 

Debauchers of a thin, irritable, nervous disposition ; 
prone to indigestion and hemorrhoids (persons with 
light hair, blue eyes, Iyob.). 

"Nux is chiefly successful with persons of an ardent 
character ; of an irritable, impatient temperament, dis- 
posed to anger, spite or deception." — Hahnemann. 

Anxiety with irritability and inclination to com- 
mit suicide, but is afraid to die. 

Hypochondriac : literary, studious persons, who are 
too much at home, suffer from want of exercise, with 
gastric, abdominal complaints and costiveness ; espe- 
cially in drunkards. 

Oversensitive : to external impressions ; to noise, 
odors, light or music (Nux m.) ; trifling ailments are 

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NUX VOMICA-(G»ft««^). 

itnbearable (Cham.) ; every harmless word offends 

(Ign.)- 

Persons* who are very particular, careful, but in- 
clined to become easily excited or angered ; irascible 
and tenacious. 

Bad effects of : coffee, tobacco, alcoholic stimulants ; 
highly spiced or seasoned food ; over-eating (Ant. c.) ; 
long-continued over-mental exertion ; sedentary habits ; 
loss of sleep (Coc, Colch., Nit. ac.) ; aromatic or patent 
medicines ; sitting on cold stones, especially in warm 
weather. 

One of the best remedies with which to commence 
treatment of cases that have been drugged by mix- 
tures, bitters, vegetable pills, nostrums or quack reme- 
dies, especially aromatic or "hot medicines," but only 
if symptoms correspond. 

Convulsions, with consciousness (Strych.) ; < anger, 
emotion, touch, moving. 

Pains are tingling, sticking, hard, aching, worse 
from motion and contact. 

Tendency to faint (Nux m., Sulph.) ; from odors ; 
in morning ; after eating ; after every labor pain. 

Cannot keep from falling asleep in the evening 
while sitting or reading hours before bedtime, and 
awakes at 3 or 4 A. M. ; falls into a dreamy sleep at day- 
break from which he is hard to arouse, and then feels 
tired and weak (reverse of, Puis.). 

Catarrh : snuffles of infants (Am. c, Samb.) ; coryza, 
dry at night, fluent by day ; < in warm room, > in 
cold air ; from sitting in cold places, on stone steps. 



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NUX VOMICA -{Continued ). 

Eructations : sour, bitter ; nausea and vomiting 
every morning with depression of spirits ; after eating. 

Nausea : constant ; after eating ; in morning ; from 
smoking ; and feels "If I could only vomit I would 
be so much better." 

Stomach : pressure an hour or two after eating as 
from a stone (immediately after, Kali bi., Nux m.) ; 
pyrosis, tightness, must loosen clothing ; cannot use 
the mind for two or three hours after a meal ; sleepy 
after dinner ; from anxiety, worry, brandy, coffee, 
drugs, night watching, high living, etc. 

Constipation ; with frequent unsuccessful desire, 
passing small quantities of faeces (in upper abdomen, 
Ign., Ver.) ; sensation as if not finished. 

Frequent desire for stool ; anxious, ineffectual, > 
for a time after stool ; in morning after rising ; after 
mental exertion (inactive, no desire, Bry., Op., Sulph.). 

Alternate constipation and diarrhoea (Sulph., Ver.), 
in persons who have taken purgatives all their lives. 

Menses : too early, profuse, last too long ; or keep- 
ing on several days longer, with complaints at onset 
and remaining after ; every two weeks ; irregular, 
never at right time ; stopping and starting again 
(Sulph.) ; during and after, < of old symptoms. 

Labor pains : violent, spasmodic ; cause urging to 
stool or to urinate ; < in back ; prefers a warm room. 

Strangulated hernia, especially umbilical. 

Backache : must sit up to turn over in bed ; lum- 
bago ; from sexual weakness, from masturbation. 

Repugnance to cold or to cold air ; chilly, on least 



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NUX VOMIC A— ( Continued ) . 

movement ; from being uncovered ; must be covered 
in every stage of fever — chill, heat or sweat. 

Fever : great heat, whole body burning hot (Aeon.), 
face red and hot (Bell.), yet patient cannot move or 
uncover without being chilly. 

Relations. — Complementary: Sulphur in nearly all 
diseases. 

Inimical: to, Zinc; must not be used before or 
after. 

Follows well : after, Ars., Ipec, Phos., Sep., Sulph. 

Is followed well : by, Bry., Kob., Puis., Sulph. 

Nux should be given on retiring or, what is better, 
several hours before going to bed ; it acts best during 
repose of mind and body. 

Aggravation. — Morning; waking at 4. A. M.; mental 
exertion ; after eating or over-eating ; touch, noise, 
anger, spices, narcotics, dry weather ; in cold air. 

Amelioration. — In evening, while at rest ; lying 
down, and in damp, wet weather (Caust.). 



OPIUM. 

Poppy. Papaveracece. 

Especially adapted to children and old people ; dis- 
eases of first and second childhood (Bar. c, Mill.); 
persons with light hair, lax muscles, and want of 
bodily irritability. 

Want of susceptibility to remedies ; lack of vital 
reaction, the well chosen remedy makes no impression 
(Carbo v., L,aur., Val.). 

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OPIUM— ( ConUn ued ) . 

Ailments : with insensibility and partial or complete 
paralysis ; that originate from fright, bad effects of, 
the fear still remaining (Aeon., Hyos.); from charcoal 
vapors ; from inhaling gas ; of drunkards. 

All complaints : with great sopor ; painless, com- 
plains of nothing, wants nothing. 

Spasms : of children, from approach of strangers ; 
from nursing after fright of mother (Hyos. — after 
anger of mother, Cham., Nux); from crying ; eyes 
half open and upturned. 

Screaming before or during a spasm (Apis, Hell.). 
Deep stertorous respiration both on inhalation and 
exhalation. 

Delirium, constantly talking ; eyes wide open, face 
red, puffed ; or unconscious, eyes glassy, half-closed, 
face pale, deep coma ; preceded by stupor. 

Thinks she is not at home (Bry.); this is continually 
in her mind. 

Picking of bed clothes during sleep (while awake, 
Bell., Hyos.). 

Delirium tremens : in old, emaciated persons ; 
bloated face, stupor, eyes burning, hot, dry ; with 
loud snoring. 

Sleep : heavy, stupid ; with stertorous breathing, 
red face, eyes half closed, blood-shot ; skin covered with 
hot sweat ; after convulsions. 

Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Cham.), sleepless- 
ness with acuteness of hearing, clock striking and 
cocks crowing at a great distance keep her awake. 

Ivoss of breath on falling asleep (Grind., Lach.). 

Bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it (bed feels hard, 

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OPIUM— ( Continued ) . 

Arn., Bry., Pyr.); moves often in search of a cool place ; 
mnst be uncovered. 

Digestive organs inactive : peristaltic motion re- 
versed or paralyzed ; bowels seem closed. 

Constipation : of children ; of corpulent, good- 
natured women (Graph.); from inaction or paresis, no 
desire ; from lead poisoning ; stool hard, round, black 
balls (Chel., Plumb., Thuja); feces protrude and re- 
cede (Sil., Thuja). 

Stool : involuntary, especially after fright (Gels.); 
black and offensive ; from paralysis of sphincter. 

Urine : retained, with bladder full ; retention, post- 
partum or from excessive use of tobacco ; in nursing 
children, after passion of nurse ; in fever or acute ill- 
ness ; paralysis of bladder or sphincter. 

(In Stramonium we have suppression ; while in 
Opium the secretion is not diminished, the bladder is 
full but fullness is unrecognized.) 

Opium renders the intestines so sluggish that the 
most active purgatives lose their power. — Hering. 

Persistent diarrhoea in those treated with large 
doses of the drug. — Iyippe. 

Sudden retrocession of acute exanthema results in 
paralysis of brain or convulsions (Zinc). 

Marasmus ; child with wrinkled skin, looks like a 
little dried up old man (Abrot.). 

Relations. — Antidotes, for poisonous doses ; strong 
coffee, Nux, Kali per. and constant motion. 

When symptoms correspond, the potencies may 
antidote bad effects of Opium drugging. 

Compare : Apis, Bell., Hyos., Strain., and Zinc. 

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OPIUM— ( Continued ) . 

Aggravation. — During and after sleep (Apis, I^ach.); 
while perspiring ; from warmth ; stimulants. 
Amelioration. — From cold ; constant walking. 



PETROLEUM. 

Coal or Rock Oil. Anthracite. 

Adapted to persons with light hair and skin ; irri- 
table, quarrelsome disposition (Nux) ; easily offended 
at trifles (Ign. Med.); vexed at everything. 

Ailments : from riding in a carriage, railroad car, 
or in a ship (Coc, Sanic). 

Ailments which are worse before and during a 
thunderstorm (Nat. c, Phos., Psor.). 

Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., 
Mag. p. — reverse of, Plat., Stan.). 

During sleep or delirium : imagines that one leg is 
double ;. that another person lies alongside of him in 
same bed; that there are two babies in the bed (Val.). 

Vertigo on rising (Bry.) ; in occiput ; as if intoxi- 
cated ; like seasickness (Coc). 

Headache : in occiput, which is as heavy as lead ; 
pressing, pulsating pain ; as if everything in the head 
were alive ; numb, bruised ; as if made of wood. 

Gastralgia : of pregnancy ; with pressing, drawing 
pains ; whenever stomach is empty ; relieved by con- 
stant eating (Anac, Chel., Sep.). 

Diarrhoea : yellow, watery, gushing ; after cabbage, 
sour krout ,; during pregnancy, stormy weather ; 
always in the daytime. 

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PETROI^BXJM— {Continued ) . 

Painful sensitiveness of skin of whole body ; all 
clothing is painful ; slight injury suppurates (Hep.). 

Skin of hands rough, cracked ; tips of fingers rough, 
cracked, fissured, every winter ; tenderness of the feet, 
which are bathed in foul-smelling sweat (Graph., 
Sanic, Sil.). 

Herpes : of genital organs extending to perineum 
and thighs ; itching, redness ; skin cracked, rough, 
bleeding ; dry or moist. 

Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of 
hands (Sang., Sulph.). 

Sweat and moisture of external genitals, both sexes. 

Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands < 
in cold weather ; decubitus. 

Sensation of coldness about the heart (Carbo an., 
Kali m., Nat. m.). 

Relations. — One of our best' antidotes for lead 
poisoning. 

The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in 
summer (Alum.) ; if suppressed, causes diarrhoea. 

Aggravation. — Carriage riding (Coc, Sanic.) ; dur- 
ing a thunderstorm ; in winter (Alum.). 

PETROSELINUM. 

Parsley. Umbelliferce. 

Intermittent fever : complicating traumatic or 
chronic urethritis or stricture ; with abdominal affec- 
tions and perverted or defective assimilation. 

Thirsty and hungry, yet as soon as they begin to 
eat or drink they lose all desire (rev. of, Cal.). 

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PETROSEXI1SUUI— {Continued ). 

Sudden urging to urinate (Canth.). 

Child suddenly seized with desire to urinate ; if 
cannot be gratified at once jumps up and down with 
pain. 

Burning, tingling from perineum throughout whole 
urethra. 

Frequent voluptuous tickling in fossa navicularis. 

Gonorrhoea : sudden irresistible desire to urinate ; 
t7itense biting, itching, deep in urethra, must rub it 
with some rough article in urethra for >; pain at 
root of penis or neck of bladder. Gleet. 

Relations. — Compare: Can., Canth., Mer. in sudden 
urging to urinate. 



PHOSPHORIC ACID. 

Glacial Phosphoric acid. HPO y 

Best suited to persons of originally strong constitu- 
tions, who have become debilitated by loss of vital 
fluids, sexual excesses (Cinch.) ; violent, acute dis- 
eases ; chagrin, or a long succession of moral emo- 
tions, as grief, care, disappointed affection. 

Ailments : from care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, home- 
sickness (Ign.) ; sleepy, disposed to weep ; night-sweats 
towards morning. 

Pale, sickly complexion, eyes sunken and sur- 
rounded by blue margins. 

Mild, yielding disposition (Puis.). 

Is listless, apathetic ; indifferent to the affairs of 
life ; prostrated and stupefied with grief; to those 

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PHOSPHORIC ACID— ( Continued ) . 

things that used to be of most interest, especially if 
there be debility and emaciation. 

Delirium : muttering, unintelligible ; lies in a 
stupor or a stupid sleep, unconscious of all that is 
going on around him ; when aroused is fully con- 
scious, answers slowly and correctly and relapses into 
stupor. 

In children and young people who grow too rapidly 
(Cal., Cal. p.) ; pains in back and limbs as if beaten. 

Headache : crushing weight on vertex, from long 
lasting grief or exhausted nerves ; in occiput and 
nape ; usually from behind forward, < by least 
motion, noise, especially music, > lying (Bry., Gels., 

SiL). 

Headache of school girls from eye-strain or overuse 
of eyes (Cal. p., Nat. m.) ; of students, who are grow- 
ing too fast. 

Patient trembles, legs weak, stumbles easily or 
makes missteps ; weak and indifferent to the affairs of 
life. 

Interstitial inflammation of bones, scrofulous, 
sycotic, syphilitic, mercurial ; periosteum inflamed, 
pains burning, tearing, as if scraped with a knife 
(Rhus) ; caries, rachitis, but not necrosis ; growing 
pains. 

Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of extremi- 
ties ; neurosis in stump after amputations (Cepa). 

Diarrhoea: painless; not debilitating ; white or yel- 
low, watery ; from acids ; involuntary, with the flatus 
(Aloe, Nat. m.) ; choleraic, from fear. 

Urine : looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody 

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PHOSPHORIC ACID -(Continued ) . 

pieces ; decomposes rapidly ; profuse urination at night 
of clear, watery urine, which forms a white cloud at 
once (phosphates in excess, nerve waste). 

Onanism ; when patient is greatly distressed by the 
culpability of the act (compare, Dios., Staph.). 

Emissions : frequent, profuse, debilitating ; after 
coitus ; most desire, after ; several in one night ; 
abashed, sad, despairs of cure (with irresistible ten- 
dency to masturbate, Ust.). 

Chest : weak from talking or coughing (Stan.) ; in 
phthisis ; nervous, from loss of vital fluids, too rapid 
growth, depressing mental emotions. 

Cerebral typhoid or typhus ; complete apathy and 
stupor; takes no notice, "lies like a log," utterly re- 
gardless of surroundings ; intestinal hemorrhage, blood 
dark. 

Relations. — Compare : Phos., Puis., Pic. ac, Sil.; 
Mur. ac. in typhoid ; Nit. sp. d. in apathetic stupor 
and delirium. 

Phos. ac. acts well before or after Cinch, in colli- 
quative sweats, diarrhoea, debility ; after Nux in faint- 
ing after a meal. 

Aggravation. — From mental affections ; loss of vital 
fluids, especially seminal ; self abuse ; sexual excesses > 
talking, causes weakness in chest (Stan.). 

PHOSPHORUS. 

Phosphorus. The Element. 

Adapted to tall slender persons of sanguine tem- 
perament, fair .skin, delicate eyelashes, fine, blond, or 
red hair, quick perceptions, and very sensitive nature. 

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PHOSPHORUS— ( Continued ) . 

Young people, who grow too rapidly, are inclined 
to stoop (to walk stooped, Sulph.) ; who are chlorotic 
or anaemic ; old people, with morning diarrhoea. 

Nervous, weak ; desires to be magnetized (Sil.). 

Oversensitiveness of all the senses to external im- 
pressions, light, noise, odors, touch. 

Restless, fidgety ; moves continually, cannot sit or 
stand still a moment (restless, fidgety feet, Zinc). 

Burning : in spots along the spine ; between the 
scapula (as of a piece of ice, Lachn.) ; or intense heat 
running up the back ; of palms of hands (Lach.) ; in 
chest and lungs ; of every organ or tissue of the body 
(Ars., Sulph.) ; generally in diseases of nervous system. 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; small wounds bleed pro- 
fusely (Kreos., L,ach.) ; from every mucous outlet. 

Great weakness and prostration : with nervous de- 
bility and trembling ; of whole body ; weakness and 
weariness from loss of vital fluids (Cinch., Phos. ac). 

Pain : acute, especially in the chest, < from 
pressure, even slight, in intercostal spaces, and lying on 
left side ; excited by slightest chill ; open air intoler- 
able. 

A weak, empty, all-gone sensation in head, chest, 
stomach and entire abdomen. 

Apathetic ; unwilling to talk ; answers slowly ; 
moves sluggishly (Phos. ac). 

Weary of life, full of gloomy forebodings. 

Dandruff, falls out in clouds (I/yc.); hair falls out in 
bunches, baldness of single spots. 

Eyes : hollow, surrounded by blue rings ; lids, puffy, 
swollen, cedematous (upper lids, Kali c ; lower, Apis). 

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PHOSPHORUS— ( Continued ) . 

Longs for : cold food and drink ; juicy, refreshing 
things ; ice cream > gastric pains. 

As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is 
thrown up. 

Regurgitation of ingesta, in mouthfuls (Alum.). 

Nausea from placing hands in warm water ; sneez- 
ing and coryza from putting hands in water (Lac d.). 

Constipation ; faeces slender, long, dry, tough and 
hard (Staph.) ; voided with great straining and diffi- 
culty (Caust). 

Diarrhoea : as soon as anything enters the rectum ; 
profuse, pouring away as from a hydrant ; watery, 
with sago-like particles ; sensation, as if the anus re- 
mained open (Apis) ; involuntary ; during cholera 
time (which precedes cholera, Phos. ac.) ; morning, of 
old people. 

Hemorrhage : frequent and profuse, pouring out 
freely and then ceasing for a time ; metrorrhagia, in 
cancer ; hemoptysis ; vicarious, from nose, stomach, 
anus, urethra, in amenorrhoea. 

Heaviness of chest, as if a weight were lying on it. 

During pregnancy ; unable to drink water ; sight of 
it causes vomiting ; must close her eyes while bathing 
(Lys.). 

Cannot talk, the larynx is so painful ; is dry, raw, 
rough, sore. 

Cough : going from warm to cold air (rev. of, Bry.); 
< from laughing, talking, reading, drinking, eating, 
lying on the left side (Dros., Stan.). 

Perspiration has the odor of sulphur. 

Necrosis of the (left) lower jaw. 

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PMOPMSORUS— {Continued ). 

Relations. — Complementary : Arsenic, with which 
it is isomorphic ; Cepa, its vegetable analogus. 

Incompatible : with Causticum, must not be used 
before or after. 

Phos. removes the bad effects of Iodine and excessive 
use of table salt. 

Follows well : after, Calc. or Cinch. 

Hahnemann says : " Acts most beneficial when 
patient suffers from chronic loose stool or diarrhoea. " 

Aggravation. — Evening, before midnight (Puis., 
Rhus) ; lying on left or painful side ; during a thunder- 
storm; weather changes, either hot or cold. 

Cold air relieves the head and face symptoms but 
aggravates those of chest, throat and neck. 

Amelioration. — In the dark : lying on r. side ; from 
being rubbed or mesmerized ; from cold food, cold 
water, until it gets warm. 



PHYSOSTIGMA. 

Calabar Bean. Leguminoscs \ 

Uncommon mental activity ; cannot stop thinking. 

Vision dim ; from blur or film ; objects mixed. 

Pain after using eyes ; floating black spots, flashes 
of light, twitching of lids and muscles of eyes (Agar.); 
nistagmus. 

Great prostration of muscular system ; impaired 
locomotion (Gels.). 

Tremors or trembling of young persons from mental 
or physical disturbances. 

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PHYSOSTIGUA— {Continued ). 

Idiopathic or traumatic tetanus ; brought on or < 
by slightest breath of air from a per son passing (Hyper., 
L,ys., Nux, Strych.). 

Relations. — Compare: Bell., Con., Cur., Gels., 
Hyper., Strych. 



PODOPHYLLUM. 

May Apple. Berberidace<z. 

Adapted to persons of bilious temperament who 
suffer from gastro-intestinal derangement, especially 
after abuse of mercury ; " bilious attacks." 

Thirst for large quantities of cold water (Bry.). 

Pains : sudden shocks of jerking pains. 

Depression of spirits, imagines he is going to die or 
be very ill (Ars.) ; disgust for life. 

Headache alternates with diarrhoea (Aloe) ; head- 
ache in winter, diarrhoea in summer. 

Painless cholera morbus ; cholera infantum (Phyt.). 

Violent cramps in feet, calves, thighs ; watery, pain- 
less stools. 

Difficult dentition : moaning, grinding the teeth 
at night ; intense desire to press the gums together 
(Phyt.) ; head hot and rolling from side to side (Bell., 
Hell.). 

Diarrhoea : of long standing ; early in morning, con- 
tinues through forenoon, followed by natural stool in 
evening (Aloe), and accompanied by sensation of 
weakness or sinking in abdomen or rectum. 

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PODOPHYLL€M-( Continued ) . 

Diarrhoea of children : during teething ; after eat- 
ing ; while being bathed or washed ; of dirty zvater 
soaking napkin through (Benz. ac.) ; with gagging. 

Stool : green, watery, fetid, profuse (Calc.) ; gush- 
ing out (Gamb., Jat, Phos.) ; chalk-like, jelly-like 
(Aloe) ; undigested (Cinch., Ferr.) ; yellow meal-like 
sediment ; prolapse of rectum before or with stool. 

Prolapsus uteri : from overlifting or straining : from 
constipation ; after parturition ; with subinvolution. 

In early months of pregnancy, can lie comfortably 
only on stomach (Acet. ac). 

Patient is constantly rubbing and shaking the region 
of liver with his hands. 

Fever paroxysm at 7 A. m., with great loquacity 
during chill and heat; sleep during perspiration. 

Affects right throat, right ovary, right hypochon- 
drium (L/yc). 

Pain and numbness in right ovary, running down 
thigh of that side (L,il.). 

Suppressed menses in young girls (Puis., Tub.). 

Relations. — Compare : Aloe, Chel., Collin., I4I., 
Merc, Nux, Sulph. 

It antidotes the bad effects of mercury. 

After : Ipec, Nux, in gastric affections ; after, Calc. 
and Sulph. in liver diseases. 

Aggravation. — In early morning (Aloe, Nux, 
Sulph.) ; in hot weather ; during dentition. 



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PHYTOLACCA. 

Poke Root. PhytolaccacecB. 

Patients of a rheumatic diathesis ; rheumatism of 
fibrous and periosteal tissue ; mercurial or syphilitic. 

Emaciation, chlorosis ; loss of fat. 

Great exhaustion and profound prostration. 

Occupies a position between Bryonia and Rhus ; 
cures when these fail, though apparently well indi- 
cated. 

In rheumatism and neuralgia after diphtheria, gon- 
orrhoea, mercury or syphilis. 

Pains flying like electric shocks ; shooting, lanci- 
nating ; rapidly shifting (Lac c, Puis.) ; worse from 
motion and at night. 

Entire indifference to life ; sure she will die. 

Vertigo ; when rising from bed feels faint (Bry.). 

Intense headache and backache ; lame, sore, bruised 
feeling all over ; constant desire to move but motion 
< pains (Lac c, Mer. — motion >, Rhus). 

Irresistible desire to bite the teeth or gums together 
(Pod.); during dentition. 

Sore throat ; of a dark red color ; uvula large, 
dropsical, almost translucent (Kali bi., Rhus). 

Diphtheria : pains shoot from throat into ears on 
swallowing ; great pain at root of tongue when swal- 
lowing ; burning, as from a coal of fire or a red-hot 
iron ; dryness ; difficult to swallow with trembling of 
the hands ; sensation of a lump in the throat with 
continuous desire to swallow ; tonsils, uvula and back 
part of throat covered with ash-colored membrane ; 
cannot drink hot fluids (Lach.). 

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PHYTOLACCA— {Continued ) . 

Carotid and submaxillary glands indurated, after 
diphtheria, scarlet fever. 

Mammae full of hard, painful nodosities. 

Breast ; shows an early tendency to cake ; is full, 
stony, hard and painful, especially when suppura- 
tion is inevitable ; when child nurses pain goes from 
nipple all over body (goes to back, Crot. t.; to uterus, 
Puis., Sil.). 

Mammary abscess ; fistulcs, gaping, angry ulcers ; 
pus sanious, ichorous, fetid; unhealthy. 

Tumefied breast neither heals nor suppurates, is of 
a purple hue and "hard as old cheese" (Bry., Lac c, 
Phel.). 

Nipples, sensitive, sore, fissured (Graph.) ; < in- 
tensely by nursing, pain radiates over whole body. 

Hastens suppuration (Hep., L,ach., Mer., Sil.). 

Aggravation. — When it rains ; exposure to damp, 
cold weather. Compare ; Kale i. its analogue. 



PICRIC ACID. 

Picric acid. HC Q H. 2 (NO^ O. 

Is often restorative of a wasted and worn-out sys- 
tem ; a fair picture of " nervous prostration " (Kali p.). 

Progressive, pernicious, anaemia ; neurasthenia. 

Brain fag : of literary or business people ; slightest 
excitement, mental exertion or overwork brings on 
headache, and causes burning along the spine (Kali p.). 

Headache : of students, teachers and overworked 
business men ; from grief or depressing emotions ; in 

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PICRIC ACID— (Continued). 

occipito-cervical region (Nat. m., Sil.) ; < or brought 
on by slightest motion or mental exertion. 

Priapism, with spinal disease ; erections violent, 
long-lasting ; profuse seminal emissions ; satyriasis 
(Canth., Phos.). 

Small boils in any part of body, but especially in 
external auditory canal. 

Burning along spine and great weakness of spine 
and back ; softening of cord (Phos., Zinc). 

Weariness, progressing from a slight feeling of 
fatigue on motion to complete paralysis. 

1 ired heavy feeling all over body, especially of 
limbs, < on exertion. 

Relations. — Compare : Arg. n., Gels., Kali p., Phos. 
ac, Phos., Petr., Sil. 

Amelioration. — From cold air and cold water. 

Aggravation. — L,east mental exertion; motion; 
study ; wet weather. 



PLATINA. 

Adapted to women, dark hair, rigid fibre ; thin, of 
a sanguine temperament ; who suffer from too early 
and too profuse menses. 

Sexual organs exceedingly sensitive; cannot bear 
the napkin to touch her ; will go into spasms from an 
examination ; vulva painfully sensitive during coitus ; 
will faint during, or cannot endure, coition (compare, 
Mur., Orig.). 

The pains increase gradually and as gradually de- 

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Pt,ATIXA— ( Continued ) . 

crease (Stan.) ; are attended with numbness of parts 
(Cham.). 

For hysterical patients ; alternately gay and sad, 
who cry easily (Croc, Ign., Puis.) ; pale, easily 
fatigued. 

Arrogant, proud, contemptuous, and haughty ; 
pitiful " looking down " upon people usually vener- 
ated ; a kind of " casting them off " unwillingly. 

Mental delusions, as if everything about her were 
small ; all persons physically and mentally inferior, 
but she physically large and superior. 

Sensation, of growing larger in every direction. 

Trifling things produce profound vexation (Ign., 
Staph.) ; remains a long time in the sulks. 

Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death 
(Aeon., Ars.). 

Mental disturbances after fright, grief, vexation ; 
onanism, pride. 

Mental symptoms appear as physical symptoms dis- 
appear, and vice versa. 

Headache : numb, heavy pain in brain or on vertex ; 
from anger or chagrin ; hysterical, from uterine dis- 
ease ; pains gradually increase and decrease. 

Nymphomania : < in lying-in women ; excessive 
sexual development, especially in virgins (Kali p.) ; 
vaginismus, spasms and constriction. 

Menses too early, too profuse, too long-lasting ; 
dark, clotted, offensive, with bearing down spasms ; 
pains in uterus with twitching ; genitalia sensitive. 

Excessive itching in uterus ; pruritus vulvae. 

Constipation : while travelling (at sea, Bry.) ; after 

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PI^ATIIVA— ( Continued ) . 

lead poisoning : from inertia of bowels ; frequent, un- 
successful urging ; stools adhere to rectum and anus 
like soft clay (Alum.) ; of emigrants ; of pregnancy ; 
obstinate cases after Nux has failed. 

Metrorrhagia : flow in black clots and fluid ; thick, 
black, tarry or in a grumous mass (Croc). 

Relations. — Compare : Aur., Croc, Ign., Kali p., 
Puis., Sep., Stan.; Val. the vegetable analogue. 



PLUMBUM. 

Lead. The Metal. 

Adapted to diseases from spinal origin (Phos., 
Pic. ac, Zinc). 

Excessive and rapid emaciation ; general or partial 
paralysis ; extreme, with anaemia and great weakness. 

Muscular atrophy from sclerosis of spinal system. 

Lassitude ; faints on going into a room full of com- 
pany. 

Slow of perception ; intellectual torpor, gradually 
increasing apathy (in fevers, Phos. ac). 

Weakness or loss of memory ; unable to find the 
proper word (Anac, Lac c). 

Delirium alternating with colic. 

Assumes strangest attitudes and positions in bed. 

Complexion : pale, ash-colored, yellow, corpse-like, 
cheeks sunken ; expressive of great anxiety and suffer- 
ing. 

Skin of face, greasy, shiny (Nat. m., Sanic). 

Distinct blue line along margin of gums ; gums 
swollen, pale, show a lead-colored line. 

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PLUMBUM— ( Continued ) . 

Excessive pain in abdomen, radiating to all parts of 
body. 

Sensation in abdomen at night, which canses patient 
to stretch violently for honrs ; mnst stretch in every 
direction (Amyl. n.). 

Violent colic, sensation as if abdominal wall was 
drawn as if by a string to the spine. 

Intussusception, with colic and fecal vomiting ; 
strangulated hernia, femoral, inguinal or umbilical. 

Constipation: stools hard, lumpy \ black like sheep- 
dung (CheL, Op.); with urging and terrible pain from 
spasm of anus ; obstructed evacuation, from indurated 
feces, dryness of the excretions, paralysis or muscular 
atony ; during pregnancy ; from impaction of feces ; 
when Platina fails. 

Bright's disease : colic pains ; abdomen retracted ; 
rapid emaciation ; excessive debility ; contracted 
kidney. 

Feels a lack of room for foetus in uterus ; inability 
of uterus to expand ; threatening abortion. 

Spasms : clonic ; tonic ; from cerebral sclerosis or 
tumor ; epilepsy or epileptiform convulsions. 

Yellow skin : dark brown " liver spots " in climac- 
teric years ; jaundice, the eyes, skin and urine yellow. 

Relations. — Compare : Alum., Plat., Op. in colic ; 
Pod. in retraction of navel ; Nux in strangulated 
hernia ; Pod. the vegetable analogue. 

The bad effects of Plumbum are antidoted by Alum., 
Petr., Plat, Sulph. ac, Zinc. 

Aggravation. — At night (pains in limbs). 

Amelioration. — Rubbing ; hard pressure. 

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PSORI1VXJM. 

A Product of Psora. A Nosode. 

Especially adapted to the psoric constitution. 

In chronic cases when well selected remedies fail to 
relieve or permanently improve (in acute diseases, 
Sulph.); when Sulphur seems indicated but fails to 
act. 

L,ack of reaction after severe acute diseases. Ap- 
petite will not return. 

Children are pale, delicate, sickly. Sick babies will 
not sleep day or night but worry, fret, cry (Jalap.); 
child is good, plays all day ; restless, troublesome, 
screaming all night (rev. of, L,yc). 

Great weakness and debitity ; from loss of animal 
fluids ; remaini7ig after acute diseases ; independent 
of or without any organic lesion, or apparent cause. 

Body has a filthy smell, even after bathing. 

The whole body painful, easily sprained and injured. 

Great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather ; 
wears a fur cap, overcoat or shawl even in hottest 
summer weather. 

Stormy weather he feels acutely ; feels restless for 
days before or during a thunderstorm (Phos.); dry, 
scaly eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter. 

Ailments : from suppressed itch or other skin dis- 
eases, when Sulphur fails to relieve ; severe, from even 
slight emotions. 

Feels unusually well day before attack. 

Extremely psoric patients ; nervous, restless, easily 
startled. 

All excretions — diarrhoea, leucorrhcea, menses, per- 
spiration — have a carrion-like odor. 

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PSOREVUM— {Continued ) 

Anxious, full of fear ; evil forebodings. 

Religious melancholy ; very depressed, sad suicidal 
thoughts ; despairs of salvation (Mel.), of recovery. 

Despondent : fears he will die ; that he will fail in 
business ; during climaxis ; making his own life and 
that of those about him intolerable. 

Driven to despair with excessive itching. 

Headache : preceded, by nickering before eyes ; 
by dimness of vision or blindness (Lac d., Kali bi.); by 
black spots or rings. 

Headache : always hungry during ; > while eating 
(Anac, Kali p.); from suppressed eruptions, or sup- 
pressed menses ; > by nosebleed (Mel.). 

Hair, dry, lustreless, tangles easily, glues together 
(L,yc). Plica polonica (Bar., Sars., Tub.). 

Scalp : dry, scaly or moist, fetid, suppurating erup- 
tions ; oozing a sticky, offensive fluid (Graph., Mez.). 

Intense photophobia, with inflamed lids ; cannot 
open the eyes ; lies with face buried in pillow. 

Bars : humid scurfs and soreness on and behind 
ears ; oozing and offensive viscid fluid (Graph.). 

Otorrhoea ; thin, ichorous, horribly fetid discharge, 
like decayed meat ; chronic, after measles or scarlatina. 

Acne : all forms, simplex, rosacea ; < during 
menses, from coffee, fats, sugar, meat ; when the best 
selected remedy fails or only palliates. 

Hungry in the middle of the night; must have 
something to eat (Cina, Sulph.). 

Eructations tasting of rotten eggs (Arm, Ant. t., 
Graph.). 

Quinsy : tonsils greatly swollen ; difficult, painful 

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PSORI1VUM— (Continued ). 

swallowing ; burns, feels scalded ; cutting, tearing, 
intense pain to ears on swallowing (painless, Bar. c); 
profuse, offensive saliva ; tough mucus in throat, must 
hawk continually. To not only > acute attack but 
eradicate the te7idency. 

Hawks up cheesy balls, size of a pea, of disgusting 
taste and carrion-like odor (Kali m.). 

Diarrhoea : sudden, imperative (Aloe, Sulph.); stool 
watery, dark brown, fetid ; smells like carrion; in- 
voluntary, < at night from i to 4 A. M.; after severe 
acute diseases ; teething ; in children ; when weather 
changes. 

Constipation : obstinate, with backache ; from inac- 
tivity of rectum ; when Sulphur fails to relieve. 

Enuresis : from vesical paresis ; during full moon 
obstinate cases, with a family history of eczema. 

Chronic gonorrhoea of year's duration that can 
neither be suppressed nor cured ; the best selected 
remedy fails. 

L,eucorrhcea : large, clotted lumps of an intolerable 
odor ; violent pains in sacrum ; debility ; during 
climaxis. 

During pregnancy : most obstinate vomiting, foetus 
moves too violently ; when the best selected remedy 
fails to relieve ; to correct the psoric diathesis of the 
unborn. 

Profuse perspiration after acute diseases, with relief 
of all suffering (Calad., Nat. m.). 

Asthma, dyspnoea : < in open air, sitting up (Laur.); 
> lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart 
(rev. of Ars.); despondent, thinks he will die. 

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PSORmUM— ( Continued ). 

Cough returns every winter. 

Hay fever : appearing regularly every year the 
same day of the month ; with an asthmatic, psoric or 
eczematous history. Patient should be treated the 
previous winter to eradicate the diathesis and prevent 
summer attack. 

Cough : after suppressed itch, or eczema ; chronic, 
of years' duration ; < mornings on waking and even- 
ings on lying down (Phos., Tub.); sputa green, yellow 
or salty mucus ; pus-like ; coughs a long time before 
expectorating. 

Skin : abnormal tendency to receive skin diseases 
(Sulph.); eruptions easily suppurate (Hep.); dry, 
inactive, rarely sweats ; dirty look, as if never washed ; 
coarse, greasy, as if bathed in oil ; bad effects from 
suppression by sulphur and zinc ointments. 

Sleepless from intolerable ' itching, or frightful 
dreams of robbers, danger, etc. (Nat. m.). 

Psorinum should not be given for psora or the psoric 
diathesis, but like every other remedy, upon a strict 
individualization — the totality of the symptoms — and 
then we realize its wonderful work. 

Relations. — Complementary: Sulphur and Tu- 
berculinum. 

Is followed well : by, Alum., Bor., Hep., Sulph., Tub. 

After: Lactic ac, in vomiting of pregnancy. 

After : Arn. in traumatic affections of ovaries. 

Sulphur follows Psorinum well, in mammary cancer. 

Whether derived from purest gold or purest filth, 
our gratitude for its excellent services forbids us to 
enquire or care. — J. B. Bell. 

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PULSATILLA. 

Anemone. Ranuncnlacecz. 

Adapted to persons of indecisive, slow, phlegmatic 
temperament ; sandy hair, bine eyes, pale face, easily 
moved to laughter or tears ; affectionate, mild, gentle, 
timid, yielding disposition — the woman's remedy. 

Weeps easily ; almost impossible to detail her ail- 
ments without weeping (weeps when thanked, Lye). 

Especially, in diseases of women and children. 

Women inclined to be fleshy, with scanty and pro- 
tracted menstruation (Graph.). 

The first serious impairment of health is referred to 
puberic age, have " never been well since " — anemia, 
chlorosis, bronchitis, phthisis. 

Secretions from all mucous membranes are thick, 
bland and yellowish-green (Kali s., Nat. s.). 

Symptoms ever changing ; no two chills, no two 
stools, no two attacks alike ; very well one hour, very 
miserable the next ; apparently contradictory (Ign.). 

Pains : drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting 
from one pai r t to another (Kali bi., Lac c, Mang. a.) ; 
are accompanied with constant chilliness ; the more 
severe the pain, the more severe the chill ; appear 
suddenly, leave gradually, or tension much increases 
until very acute and then " lets up with a snap ;" on 
first motion (Rhus). 

Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints ; gastric 
difficulties from eating rich food, cake, pastry, espe- 
cially after pork or sausage ; the sight or even the 
thought of pork causes disgust ; " bad taste " in the 
morning. 

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PUI^SATIULA— {Continued ). 

Great dryness of mouth in the morning, without 
thirst (Nux m. — mouth moist, intense thirst, Mer.). 

Mumps ; metastasis to mammae or testicle. 

"All-gone" sensation in stomach, in tea drinkers 
especially. 

Diarrhoea : only, or usually at night ; watery, 
greenish-yellow, very changeable ; soon as they eat ; 
from fruit, cold food or drinks, ice-cream (Ars., Bry.; 
eating pears, Ver., China ; onions, Thuja ; oysters, 
Brom., L,yc; milk, Cal., Nat. c, Nic, Sul.; drinking 
impure water, Camp., Zing.). 

Derangements at puberty ; menses, suppressed from 
getting the feet wet ; too late, scanty, slimy, painful, 
irregular, intermitting flow, with evening chilliness ; 
with intense pain and great restlessness and tossing 
about (Mag. p.) ; flows more during day (on lying 
down, Kreos.). Delayed first menstruation. 

Sleep : wide awake in the evening, does not want 
to go to bed ; first sleep restless, sound asleep when it 
is time to get up ; awakes languid, unrefreshed (rev. 
of, Nux). 

Styes : especially on upper lid ; from eating fat, 
greasy, rich food or pork (compare, Lye, Staph.). 

Threatened abortion ; flow ceases and then returns 
with increased force ; pains spasmodic, excite suffoca- 
tion and fainting ; must have fresh air. 

Toothache : relieved by holding cold water in the 
mouth (Bry., Coff.) ; worse from warm things and heat 
of room. 

Unable to breathe well, or is chilly in warm room. 

Nervousness, intensely felt about the ankles. 

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PUI*S ATII^ A— ( Con tin ued ) . 

Relations. — Complementary : Kali m., Lye., Sil., 
Sulph. ac.; Kali m. its chemical analogue. 

Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all 
ailments. 

Follows : and is followed by, Kali m. 

One of the best remedies with which to begin the 
treatment of a chronic case (Cal., Sulph.). 

Patients, anaemic or chlorotic, who have taken much 
iron, quinine and tonics, even years before. 

Ailments : from abuse of chamomile, quinine, 
mercury, tea-drinking, sulphur. 

Follows well : after, Kali bi., Lye, Sep., Sil., Sulph. 

Aggravation. — In a warm close room ; evening, at 
twilight ; on beginning to move ; lying on the left, or 
on the painless side ; very rich, fat, indigestible food ; 
pressure on the well side if it be made toward the 
diseased side ; warm applications; heat (Kali m.). 

Amelioration. — In the open air ; lying on painful 
side (Bry.) ; cold air or cool room ; eating or drinking 
cold things ; cold applications (Kali m.). 



PYROGEN. 

A Product of Sepsis. A Nosode. 

For saprsemia or septicaemia : puerperal or surgical ; 
from ptomaine or sewer gas infection ; during course 
of diphtheria, typhoid or typhus ; when the best 
selected remedy fails to > or pennanently improve. 

The bed feels hard (Arm); parts lain on feel sore 
and bruised (Bapt); rapid decubitus (Carb. ac). 

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PYROGEN-( Continued ) . 

Great restlessness ; must move constantly to > the 
soreness of parts (Arn., Eup.). 

Tongue : large flabby ; clean, smooth as if var- 
nished ; fiery red ; dry, cracked, articulation difficult 
(Crot, Ter.). 

Taste : sweetish ; terribly fetid ; pus-like ; as from 
an abscess. 

Vomiting : persistent ; brownish, coffee-ground ; 
offensive, stercoraceous ; with impacted or obstructed 
bowels (Op., Plb.). 

Diarrhoea : horribly offensive (Psor.); brown or 
black (L,ep.); painless, involuntary ; uncertain, when 
passing flatus (Aloe, Olean.). 

Constipation : with complete inertia (Op., Sanic); 
obstinate from impaction, in fevers ; stool, large, 
black, carrion-like; small, black balls, like olives 
(Op., Plb.). 

Foetus : or secundines retained, decomposed ; dead 
for days, black ; horribly offensive discharge ; " never 
well since " septic fever, following abortion or con- 
finement. To arouse vital activity of uterus. 

Lochia ; thin, acrid, brown, very fetid (Nit. ac); 
suppressed, followed by chills, fever and profuse fetid 
perspiration. 

Distinct consciousness of a heart ; it feels tired ; as 
if enlarged ; purring, throbbing, pulsating, constant 
in ears, preventing sleep ; cardiac asthenia from septic 
conditions. 

Pulse abnormally rapid, out of all proportion to 
temperature (Lil.). 



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PYROGEN-( Continued ) . 

Skin ; pale, cold of an ashy hue (Sec.); obstinate, 
varicose, offensive ulcers of old persons (Psor.). 

Chill : begins in the back, between scapulae ; severe, 
general, of bones and extremities ; marking onset of 
septic fever ; temperature 103 to 106 ; heat sudden, 
skin dry and burning; pulse rapid, small, wirey, 140 
to 1 70 ; cold clammy sweat follows. 

In septic fevers, especially puerperal, Pyrogen has 
demonstrated its great value as a homoeopathic 
dynamic antiseptic. 

Relations. — Compare : Ars., Carbo v., Carb. ac. Op., 
Psor., Rhus, Sec, Ver. 

Latent pyogenic process, patient continually relaps- 
ing after apparent simillimum. 

RATANHIA. 

Rhatany. Polygalacece. 

Terrible toothache during early months of preg- 
nancy ; tooth feels elongated ; < lying, compelling to 
rise and walk about. 

Constipation : stool hard with great straining ; 
protrusion of hemorrhoids followed by long-lasting 
aching and burning in anus (Sulph.); bowels inactive ; 
pain after stool as if splinters of glass were sticking 
in anus and rectum (Thuja). 

Excruciating pains after stool ; burning after soft 
stool (Nit. ac). 

Fissures of anus, great sensitiveness of rectum. 

Fissures of nipples in nursing women (Graph., Sep.). 

Relations. — Compare : Canth., Carb. ac, Iris, 
Sulph., Thuja. 

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raivu:ncuijus bulbosijs. 

Buttercup. Ranunculacece. 

One of our most effective remedies for the bad 
effects of alcoholic beverages ; spasmodic hiccough ; 
delirium tremens. 

Day blindness ; mist before eyes ; pressure and 
smarting in eyeballs (Phos.). 

Muscular pains about margins of shoulder blades in 
women of sedentary employment, often burning in 
small spots (Agar., Phos.); from needle-work, type 
writing, piano playing (Act.). 

Pains : stitches, sharp, shooti7ig, neuralgic, myalgic 
or rheumatic in walls of chesty coming in paroxysms ; 
excited or brought on by atmospheric changes ; inflam- 
matory ; depending upon spinal irritation (Agar.). 

Pleurisy or pneumonia from sudden exposure to 
cold, while overheated, or vice versa (Aeon., Am.). 

Corns sensitive to touch, smart, burn (Salyc. ac). 

Intercostal rheumatism ; chest sore, bruised, < 
from touch, motion or turning the body (Bry); in wet, 
stormy weather (Rhus). 

Shingles : preceded or followed by intercostal neu- 
ralgia (Mez.); vesicles may have a bluish appearance. 

Relations. — Compare : Aeon., Arn., Bry., Clem., 
Euphorb., Mez. 

Incompatible : with, Sulph. and Staph. 

Aggravation. — Contact ; motion ; atmospheric 
changes, especially, wet stormy weather (Rhus). 



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RHEUM. 

Rhubarb. Polygonacece. 

Suitable for children, especially during dentition. 

Sour smell of the whole body ; child smells sour, 
even after washing or bathing (Hep., Mag. a). 

Screaming of children with urging and sour stools. 

Children cry and toss about all night (Psor.). 

Child impatient, desires many things, and cries ; 
dislikes even favorite playthings (Cina, Staph.). 

Sweat of scalp, constant, profuse ; whether asleep or 
awake, quiet or in motion, the hair is always wet ; 
may or may not be sour (Cal., Sanic). 

Difficult dentition ; child restless, irritable, peevish, 
with pale face and sour smell (Kreos., Cham.). 

Desires various kinds of food but cannot eat them, 
become repugnant. 

Colic : < at once by uncovering an arm or leg ; 
with very sour stool; < when standing; not > by 
stool. 

Relations. — Complementary : after, Magn. c, when 
milk disagrees and child has sour odor. 

Compare: Cham., Col., Hep., Ipec, Magn. c, Pod., 
Staph., Sulph. 

May be given after abuse of Magnesia, with or with- 
out rhubarb, if stools are sour. 



RHODODENDRON. 

Snowrose. Erica cece. 

Nervous persons who dread a storm and are par- 
ticularly afraid of thunder ; < before the storm, espe- 

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RHODODENDRON-( Continued ) . 

cially an electrical storm (Nat. c, Phos., Psor., Sil.). 

Toothache, every spring and fall during sharp east 
winds ; worse from change of weather, thunderstorm, 
windy weather. 

Acute inflammatory swelling of joints, wandering 
from one joint to another ; severe at night ; < in rest 
and during rough stormy weather (Kalm.). 

Rheumatic drawing, tearing pains in all the limbs, 
worse at rest and in wet, cold, windy weather (Rhus). 

Cannot get asleep or remain asleep unless legs are 
crossed. 

Gout with fibrous deposit in great toe-joint, rheu- 
matic, often mistaken for bunion (Colch., L,ed.). 

Induration and swelling of the testicles after gonor- 
rhoea or rheumatic exposure (Clem.); orchitis, sensa- 
tion in gland as if it were being crushed (Aur., Cham.). 

Relations. — Compare : Bry., Con., Cal., I^ed., L,yc, 
Sep., Rhus. 

Aggravation. — Stormy, windy weather ; electrical 
changes in the atmosphere ; on approach of thunder- 
storm ; symptoms reappear with rough weather. 

Amelioration. — Better from wrapping the head 
warmly ; dry heat and exercise. 



RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 

Poison Oak. Anacardiacece. 

Adapted to persons of a rheumatic diathesis ; bad 
effects of getting wet, especially after being over- 
heated. 

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RHUS TOXICODENDRON- {^Continued). 

Ailments : from spraining or straining a single part, 
muscle or tendon (Cal., Nux) ; overlifting, particularly 
from stretching high up to reach things ; lying on 
damp ground ; too much summer bathing in lake or 
river. 

Affects the fibrous tissue, especially (Rhod. — serous, 
Bry.) ; the right side more than the left. 

Pains : as if sprained ; as if a muscle or tendon was 
torn from its attachment ; as if bones were scraped 
with a knife ; worse after midnight and in wet, rainy 
weather ; affected parts sore to touch. 

Lameness, stiffness and pain on first moving after 
rest, or on getting up in the morning, > by walking 
or continued motion. 

Great restlessness, anxiety, apprehension (Aeon., 
Ars.) ; cannot remain in bed ; must change position 
often to obtain relief from pain (from mental anxiety, 
Ars.). 

Restless, cannot stay long in one position. 

Back : pain between the shoulders on swallowing ; 
pain and stiffness in small of back < sitting or lying, 
> by motion or lying on something hard. 

Great sensitiveness to open air ; putting the hand 
from under the bed-cover brings on cough (Bar., 
Hep.). 

Muscular rheumatism, sciatica, left side (Col.) ; ach- 
ing in left arm, with heart disease. 

Great apprehension at night ; fears he will die of 
being poisoned ; cannot remain in bed. 

Vertigo, when standing or walking ; worse when 



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RHUS TOXICODENDRON - ( Continued ) . 

lying down (better when lying down, Apis) ; < rising 
from lying, or stooping (Bry.). 

Headache : brain feels loose when stepping or 
shaking the head ; sensation of swashing in brain ; 
stupefying ; as if torn ; from beer ; returns from least 
chagrin ; < from sitting, lying, in cold, > warmth 
and motion. 

Dreams of great exertion ; rowing, swimming, work- 
ing hard at his daily occupation (Bry.). 

Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever blisters around 
mouth and on chin (Nat. m.). 

Tongue : dry ; sore, red, cracked ; triangular red 
tip ; takes imprint of teeth (Chel., Pod.). 

Great thirst, with dry tongue, mouth, and throat. 

External genitals inflamed, erysipelatous, cedema- 
tous. 

A dry, teasing cough, before and during chill, in 
intermittent fever ; cough, with taste of blood. 

When acute diseases assume a typhoid form. 

Diarrhoea : with beginning typhoid ; involuntary, 
with great exhaustion; tearing pain down the pos- 
terior part of limbs during stool. 

Paralysis : with numbness of affected parts ; from 
getting wet or lying on damp ground ; after exertion, 
parturition, sexual excesses, ague or typhoid ; paresis 
of limbs ; ptosis. 

Erysipelas, from 1. to r.; vesicular, yellow vesicles ; 
much swelling, inflammation ; burning, itching, sting- 
ing. 

Relations. — Complementary : to, Bryonia. 



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RHUS TOXICODENDRON- {Continued). 

Inimical : to, Apis, must not be used before or after. 

Compare : Arm, Bry., Rhod., Nat. s., Sulph. 

Aggravation. — Before a storm ; cold, wet, rainy 
weather ; at night, especially after midnight ; from 
getting wet while perspiring ; during rest. 

Amelioration. — Warm, dry weather, wrapping up ; 
warm or hot things ; motion ; change of position ; 
moving affected parts. 

The great characteristic of Rhus is that with few 
exceptions the pains occur and are < during repose 
and are > by motion. 

Sepia, often quickly > itching and burning of 
Rhus, the vesicles drying up in a few days. 

Rhus is best antidoted by the simillimum ; the 
potentized remedy given internally. The dermatitis 
should never be treated by topical medicated appli- 
cations; they only suppress, never cure. 



RUMEX CRISPUS. 

Yellow Dock. PolygonacecB. 

For the tubercular diathesis, extremely sensitive 
skin and mucous membranes. 

Extremely sensitive to open air ; hoarseness ; worse 
evenings ; after exposure to cold ; voice uncertain. 

Tickling in throat pit, causing dry, teasing cough. 

Dry, incessant, fatiguing cough ; worse from chang- 
ing air or room (Phos., Spong.) ; evening after lying 
down ; touching or pressing the throat pit ; lying on 
left side (Phos.); from slightest inhalation of cool air ; 

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RUMEX CRISPUS— (Continued). 

covers head with bedclothes to make air warmer ; 
little or no expectoration. 

The cough is < in cool air or by anything which 
increases the volume or rapidity of inspired air. 

Sensation of lump in throat ; descends on swallow- 
ing, but returns immediately. 

Raw sensation in larynx and trachea when cough- 
ing (Caust). 

Urine ; involuntary with cough (Caust., Puis., Scil.). 

Early morning diarrhoea ; from 5 to 10 A. M. (Aloe, 
Nat. s., Pod., Sulph.) ; stools painless, profuse, offen- 
sive ; sudden urging, driving out of bed in morning. 

Skin : itching of various parts ; < by cold, > by 
warmth ; when undressing, uncovering or exposing to 
cold air (Hep., Nat. s., Olean.). 

Relations. — Compare : Bell., Caust., Dros., Hyos., 
Phos., Sang., Sulph. 

Aggravation. — Cool or cold air ; lying down (Hyos.). 

Amelioration. — Warmth ; keeping mouth covered to 
exclude cold air. 



RXJTA GRAYEOLENS. 

Rue. RutacecB. 

Scrofulous exostosis ; bruises and other mechanical 
injuries of bones and periosteum ; sprains ; periosti- 
tis ; erysipelas ; fractures, and especially dislocations 
(Symp.). 

Bruised, lame sensation all over, as after a fall or 
blow ; worse in limbs and joints (Arn.). 

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RUT A GRAVEOLENS-(a»ft«K^ ) . 

All parts of the body upon which he lies are pain- 
ful, as if bruised (Bap., Pyr.). 

Restless, turns and changes position frequently 
when lying (Rhus). 

Lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and 
ankles (chronic sprains, Bov., Stron.). 

Phthisis after mechanical injuries to chest (Mill.). 

Aching in and over eyes, with blurred vision, as if 
they had been strained. 

After using eyes at fine work, watchmaking, en- 
graving (Nat. m.) ; looking intently (Sen.). 

Amblyopia or asthenopia from over-exertion of eyes 
or anomalies of refraction ; from over-use in bad light ; 
fine sewing, over-reading at night ; misty, dim vision, 
with complete obscuration at a distance. 

Eyes burn, ache, feel strained ; hot, like balls of fire ; 
spasms of lower lids. 

Constipation ; from inactivity, or impaction follow- 
ing mechanical injuries (Arn.). 

Prolapse of rectum, immediately on attempting a 
passage ; from the slightest stooping ; after confine- 
ment ; frequent unsuccessful urging. 

Pressure on the bladder as if constantly full ; con- 
tinues after urinating ; could hardly retain urine on 
account of urging, yet if not attended to it was diffi- 
cult afterwards to void it ; scanty green urine ; in- 
voluntary. 

Warts ; with sore pains ; flat, smooth on palms of 
hands (Nat. c, Nat. m. — on backs of hands, Dul.). 

Backache, relieved by lying on the back. 



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RUT A GRAVEOLENS-(Cwft»«^). 

Relations. — Compare: Arn., Arg. n., Con., Euphr., 
Phyt, Rhus, Symph. 

After Arnica, it hastens the curative process in the 
joints ; after Symphytum, in injuries of bones. 



SABINA. 

Savine. Coniferce. 

Chronic ailments of women ; arthritic pains ; tend- 
ency to miscarriages, especially at third month. 

Music is intolerable ; produces nervousness, goes 
through bone and marrow (causes weeping, Thuja). 

Drawing pains in small of back, from sacrum to 
pubes, in nearly all diseases (from back, going round 
the body to pubes, Vib. op.). 

Ailments : following abortion or premature labor ; 
hemorrhage from the uterus ; flow partly pale red, 
partly clotted ; worse from least motion (Sec.) ; often 
relieved by walking ; pain extending from sacrum to 
pubes. 

Menses : too early, too profuse, too protracted ; 
partly fluid, partly clotted (Fer.) ; in persons who 
menstruated very early in life ; flow in paroxysms ; 
with colic and labor-like pains ; pains from sacrum to 
pubes. 

Discharge of blood between periods, with sexual 
excitement (Amb.). 

Retained placenta from atony of uterus ; intense 
after-pains (Caul., Sec). 



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SABINA — ( Co?iti?iued ) . 

Menorrhagia: during climacteric, in women who 
formerly aborted ; with early first menses. 

Inflammation of ovaries or uterus after abortion or 
premature labor. 

Promotes expulsion of moles or foreign bodies from 
uterus (Canth.). 

Fig warts with intolerable itching and burning ; 
exuberant granulations (Thuja, Nit. ac). 

Relations. — Complementary : to, Thuja. 

Compare : Calc, Croc, Millef., Sec, Trill. 

Follows : Thuja in condyloma and sycotic affections. 

Aggravation. — From least motion (Sec.) ; warm air 
or room (Apis., Puis.). 

Amelioration. — In cool, open, fresh air. 



SABADILXA. 

Cebadilla. Liliacecs. 

Suited to persons of light hair, fair complexion, 
with a weak, relaxed muscular system. 

Worm affections of children (Cina, Sil., Spig.). 

Nervous diseases : twitching, convulsive tremblings, 
catalepsy ; from worms (Cina, Psor.). 

Illusions : that he is sick ; parts shrunken ; that she 
is pregnant when merely distended from flatus ; that 
she has some horrible throat disease that will be fatal. 

Delirium during intermittents (Pod.). 

Sneezing : in spasmodic paroxysms ; followed by 
lachrymation ; copious watery coryza ; face hot and 
eyelids red and burning. 

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SABAOILLA— ( Continued ) . 

Diphtheria, tonsillitis; can swallow warm food more 
easily ; stitches and most symptoms, especially of 
throat, go from left to right (Lach., Lac a). 

Sensation of a skin hanging loosely in throat, mnst 
swallow over it. 

Headache : from too much thinking, too close appli- 
cation or attention (Arg. n.) ; from worms. 

Dryness of fauces and throat. 

Parchment-like dryness of skin. 

Relations. — Compare : Col., Colch., Lye. where < 
is from 4 to 8 p. m.; Pnls., Sab. > in open air. 

Follows : Bry. and Ran. b. well in pleurisy, and has 
cured after Aeon, and Bry. failed. 

SAMBUCUS NIGRA. 

Elder. Caprifoliacece. 

Adapted to diseases of scrofulous children, which 
affect the air passages especially. 

Persons formerly robust and fleshy, suddenly be- 
come emaciated (Iod., Tub.). 

Bad effects of violent mental emotions ; anxiety, 
grief, or excessive sexual indulgence (Phos. ac, 
Kali p.). 

CEdematous swellings in various parts of the body, 
especially in legs, instep and feet. 

Dry coryza of infants (sniffles) ; nose dry and com- 
pletely obstructed, preventing breathing and nursing 
(Am. c, Nux). 

Dyspnoea : child awakens suddenly nearly suffo- 

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SAMBUCUS NIGRA— (Continued). 

cated, face livid, blue, sits up in bed ; turns blue, 
gasps for breath, which it finally gets ; attack passes 
off but is again repeated ; child inspires, but cannot 
expire (Chlorine, Meph.) ; sleeps into the attack 
(Lach.). Compare : Arum drac. in Miller's asthma. 

Attacks of suffocation as in last stage of croup. 

Cough : suffocative, with crying children ; worse 
about midnight ; hollow, deep, whooping, with spasm 
of chest ; with regular inhalations but sighing exhala- 
tions. 

Cough deep, dry, precedes the fever paroxysm. 

Fever : dry heat while he sleeps ; on falling asleep ; 
after lying down ; without thirst ; dreads uncovering 
(must be covered in every stage, Nux). 

Profuse sweat over entire body during waking 
hours ; on going to sleep, dry heat returns (sweats as 
soon as he closes his eyes to sleep, Cinch., Con.). 

Relations. — Compare : Cinch., Chlor., Ipec, Meph., 
Sulph. 

Relieves ailments from abuse of Arsenicum. 

Aggravation. — During reast ; after eating fruit. 

Amelioration. — Sitting up in bed. Motion ; most 
of the pains occur during rest and disappear during 
motion (Rhus). 

Follows well : after, Opium, in bad effects of fright. 

SANGUINARIA. 

Bloodroot. Papaveracece. 

The periodical sick headache; begins in morning, 
increases during the day, lasts until evening ; head 

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SANGUIS ARIA— ( Continued ) . 

feels as if it would burst, or as if eyes would be 
pressed out ; relieved by sleep. 

American sick headache, > by perfect quiet in a 
dark room (" tired headache " from over mental or 
physical exertion, Epigea ; sick headache < during 
rest > by rubbing, pressure, motion, Indigo). 

Headache begins in occiput, spreads upwards and 
settles over right eye (Sil. — over or in left orbit, Spig.). 

Headaches, return at the climacteric ; every seventh 
day (Sabad., Sil., Sulph. — eighth day, Iris). 

Neuralgia of face > by kneeling down and press- 
ing the head firmly against the floor ; pain extends in 
all directions from the upper jaw. 

Circumscribed red cheeks in afternoon ; burning in 
ears ; in bronchitis, pneumonia, phthisis. 

Rheumatic pain in the right arm and shoulder (left, 
Fer.) ; cannot raise the arm, < at night. 

Pains in places where the bones are least covered, as 
tibia, backs of hands, etc. (Rhus ven.). 

Burning in pharynx and oesophagus. 

Laryngeal or nasal polypi (Sang, n., Psor., Teuc.) 

Climacteric ailments : flushes of heat and leucor- 
rhoea ; burning of palms and soles ; compelled to 
throw off bedclothes ; painful enlargement of breasts ; 
when Lachesis and Sulphur fail to relieve. 

Asthma after the "rose cold," < from odors. 

Cough : dry, waking him at night and not ceasing 
until he sits up in bed and passes flatus ; circumscribed 
red cheeks ; night sweats ; diarrhoea. 

Severe cough after whooping-cough ; the cough 
returns every time patient takes cold. 

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SANGUINARIA— ( Continued ) . 

Eruption on face of young women, especially dur- 
ing scanty menses (Bellis, Cal., Eug. j., Psor.). 

Relations. — Compare : Bell., Iris, Mellil., in sick 
headache ; Lach., Sulph., in climacteric affections ; 
Chel., Phos., Sulph., Ver. v., in chronic bronchitis or 
latent pneumonia. 

After Bell, fails in scarlatina. 

As a dynamic remedy for the narcosis of Opium. 



SANICULA. 

Mineral Spring Water. • Ottawa, III. 

Dread of downward motion (Bor.). 

Child headstrong, obstinate, cries and kicks ; cross, 
irritable, quickly alternates with laughter ; does not 
want to be touched. 

Constantly changing his occupation. 

Head and neck of children sweat profusely during 
sleep ; wets the pillow far around (Cal., Sil.). 

Profuse, scaly dandruff on scalp, eyebrows, in the 
beard. 

Soreness behind ears with discharge of white, gray, 
viscid fluid (Graph., Psor.). 

Tongue : large, flabby ; burning, must protrude it 
to keep it cool ; ring-worm on tongue (Nat. m.). 

Nausea and vomiting from car or carriage riding. 

Thirst ; drinks little and often ; is vomited soon as 
it reaches the stomach (Ars., Phos.). 

Symptoms constantly changing (Lac c, Puis.). 

Incontinence of urine and faeces ; sphincter unreli- 

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SA]\ICUI*A— ( Continued ) . 

able (Aloe); urging from flatus, must cross legs to 
prevent feces escaping. 

Constipation : no desire until a large accumulation ; 
after great straining stool partially expelled, recedes 
(Sil., Thuja); large evacuation of small, dry, gray 
balls, must be removed mechanically (SeL). 

Stool : hard, impossible to evacuate ; of grayish- 
white balls, like burnt lime ; crumbling from verge 
of anus (Mag. m.) ; with the odor of limburger cheese. 

Diarrhoea : changeable in character and color ; like 
scrambled eggs ; frothy, grass-green, turns green on 
standing ; like scum of a frog pond ; after eating, 
must hurry from table. 

The odor of stool follows despite bathing (Sulph.). 

Excoriation of skin about anus (Sulph.); covering 
perineum and extending to genitals. 

Iveucorrhcea with strong odor of fish brine (oozing 
from rectum smelling like herring brine, Cal.; fish 
brine discharge from ear, Tel. ). 

Weakness, bearing down as if contents of pelvis 
would escape ; < walking, misstep, or jar, > by rest, 
lying down ; desire to support parts by placing hand 
against vulva (Lib, Mur.); soreness of uterus. 

Foot-sweat : between the toes, making them sore ; 
offensive (Graph., Psor., Sil.); on soles as if he had 
stepped in cold water. 

Burning of soles of feet ; must uncover or put them 
in a cool place (I^ach., Med., Sang., Sulph.). 

Child kicks off clothing even in coldest weather 
(Hep., Sulph.). 

Emaciation, progressive ; child looks old, dirty, 

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S AlHICIILA • -(Continued ) . 

greasy and brozvnish ; skin about neck wrinkled 
hangs in folds (Abrot., Iod., Nat. m., Sars.). 

Relations. — Related to : Abrot., Alum, Bor., Cal., 
Graph., Nat. m., Sil., and others of our great anti- 
psorics. 



SARSAPARILLA. 

Wild Liquorice. Smilacece. 

For dark-haired persons, lithic or sycotic diathesis. 

Great emaciation ; skin becomes shriveled or lies in 
folds (Abrot., Iod., Nat., Sanic). 

Headache and periosteal pains generally from mer- 
cury, syphilis or suppressed gonorrhoea. 

In children ; face like old people ; enlarged abdo- 
men ; dry, flabby skin (Bar. c, Op.). 

Herpetic eruptions on all parts of body ; ulcers, 
after abuse of mercury, in syphilis. 

Rash from exposure to open air ; dry, itchlike erup- 
tions, prone to appear in spring ; become crusty. 

Severe, almost unbearable pain at conclusion of 
urination (Berb., Equis., Med., Thuja). 

Passage of gravel or small calculi ; renal colic ; 
stone in bladder ; bloody urine. 

Urine : bright and clear but irritating ; scanty, 
slimy, flaky, sandy, copious, passed without se?tsation 
(Caust.) ; deposits white sand. 

Painful distension and tenderness in bladder ; urine 
dribbles while sitting, standing, passes freely ; air 
passes from urethra. 

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S ARSAPARILLA- ( Continued ) . 

Sand in urine or on diaper ; child screams before 
and while passing it (Bor., Lye). 

Gonorrhoea checked by cold, wet weather, or mer- 
cury, followed by rheumatism. 

Neuralgia or renal colic ; excruciating pains from 
right kidney downwards (Lye). 

Intolerable stench on genital organs ; fluid pollu- 
tions; bloody seminal emissions (Led., Mer.). 

Retraction of nipples ; nipples are small, withered, 
unexcitable (Sil.). 

Rheumatism, bone pains after mercury or checked 
gonorrhoea ; pains < at night, in damp weather or 
after taking cold in water. 

Itching eruption on forehead during menses (Kug. 
j., Sang., Psor.). 

Rhagades : skin cracked on hands and feet ; pain 
and burning, particularly on sides of fingers and toes 
skin hard, indurated. 

Relations. — Complementary : Merc, Sep., either of 
which follows well. 

Compare : Berb., Lye, Nat. m., Phos. 

Frequently called for after abuse of Mercury. 



SBCAIJE CORNUTUM. 

Spurred Rye ; Ergot. A Fungus ; a Nosode. 

Adapted to women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachec- 
tic appearance ; irritable, nervous temperament ; pale, 
sunken countenance. 

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SECAI.E CORNUTUM-(a»ft««^). 

Very old, decrepit, feeble persons. 

Women of very lax muscular fibre ; everything 
seems loose and open ; no action, vessels flabby ; pass- 
ive hemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black, watery 
blood ; the corpuscles are destroyed. 

Hemorrhagic diathesis ; the slightest wound causes 
bleeding for weeks (L,ach., Phos.) ; discharge of sani- 
ous liquid blood with a strong tendency to putres- 
cence ; tingling in the limbs and great debility, 
especially when the weakness is not caused by pre- 
vious loss of fluids. 

Leucorrhcea ; green, brown, offensive. 

Boils : small, painful with green contents, mature 
very slowly and heal in the same manner ; very debili- 
tating. 

Face : pale, pinched, ashy, sunken, hippocratic ; 
drawn, with sunken eyes ; blue rings around eyes. 

Unnatural, ravenous appetite ; even with exhaust- 
ing diarrhoea ; craves acids, lemonade. 

Diarrhoea : profuse, watery, putrid, brown ; dis- 
charged with great force (Gamb., Crot.) ; very ex- 
hausting ; painless, involuntary ; anus wide open 
(Apis, Phos.). 

Enuresis : of old people ; urine pale, watery, or 
bloody ; urine suppressed. 

Burning ; in all parts of the body, as if sparks of 
fire were falling on the patient (Ars.). 

Gangrene ; dry, senile, < from external heat. 

Large ecchymoses ; blood blisters ; often commence- 
ment of gangrene. 

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SEC ALE CORNUTUM- ( Continued ) . 

Collapse in cholera diseases ; skin cold, yet cannot 
bear to be covered (Camph.). 

The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient 
cannot tolerate covering ; icy coldness of extremities. 

Menses : irregular ; copious, dark, fluid ; with press- 
ing, labor-like pains in abdomen ; continuous dis- 
charge of watery blood until next period. 

Threatened abortion especially at third month 
(Sab.) ; prolonged, bearing down, forcing pains. 

During labor : pains irregular ; too weak ; feeble or 
ceasing ; everything seems loose and open but no ex- 
pulsive action ; fainting. 

After pains : too long ; too painful ; hour-glass con- 
traction. 

Suppression of milk ; in thin, scrawny, exhausted 
women ; the breasts do not properly .fill. 

Pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent. 

Relations. — Compare: Cinnamon in post-partum 
hemorrhage ; it increases labor-pains, controls profuse 
or dangerous flooding, is always safe, while Brgot is 
always dangerous. 

Similar : to, Arsenicum, but cold and heat are op- 
posite. 

Resembles Colchicum in cholera morbus. 

Aggravation. — Heat: warmth front covering, of all 
affected parts ; in all diseases worse from heat. 

Amelioration. — In the cold air ; getting cold ; un- 
covering affected parts ; rubbing. 



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SELENIUM. 

Selenium. The Element. 

Adapted to light complexion ; blondes ; great ema- 
ciation of face, hands, legs and feet, of single parts. 

Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams 
of what he had forgotten. 

Headache : of drunkards ; after debauchery ; after 
lemonade, tea, wine ; every afternoon. 

Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers, genitals. 

Coryza ending in diarrhoea. 

Hungry: at night (Cina, Psor.); longing for spiritu- 
ous liquors, an almost irresistible maniacal desire. 

Constipation ; stool large, hard, impacted so that it 
requires mechanical aid (Aloe, Cal., Sanic, Sep., Sil.); 
after serious illness, especially enteric fevers. 

Urine : red, dark, scanty ; coarse, red, sandy sedi- 
ment ; involuntary dribbling while walking. 

Impotence, with desire ; lewd thoughts, but physi- 
cally impotent (sudden impotence, Chlor.). 

Erections slow, insufficient, too rapid emission with 
long-continued thrill ; weak, ill-humored after coitus, 
often involuntary dribbling of semen and prostatic 
fluid which oozes while sitting, at stool, during sleep ; 
gleet (Calad.). 

Priapism, glans drawn up (Berb. — drawn down, 
Canth.). 

Aphonia : after long use of voice ; husky when be- 
ginning to sing ; obliged to clear the throat frequently 
of a transparent starchy mucus (Arg. m., Stan.) ; 
tubercular laryngitis. 



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SEEE1VIUM— ( Continued ) . 

Weak, easily exhausted ; from either mental or 
physical labor ; after typhoid, typhus, debauchery. 

Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep ; strength 
suddenly leaves him ; especially in hot weather. 

Very great aversion to a draft of air either warm, 
cold, or damp. 

After typhoid, great weakness of spine, fears 
paralysis. 

Emaciation of affected parts. 

Relations. — Compare : Phos. in genito-urinary and 
respiratory symptoms ; Arg. m. and Stan, in laryngitis 
of singers or speakers ; Alum, hard stool, inactive 
rectum. 

Follows well : after, Calad., Nat., Staph., Phos. ac, 
in sexual weakness. 

Itch checked by Mercurials or Sulphur often re- 
quires Selenium. 

Aggr avation. -^Draught of air ; in the sun; from 
lemonade, tea or wine. 

Amelioration. — Taking cold water or cold air into 
the mouth. 



SEPIA. 

Cuttle Fish. Mollusca. 

Adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but 
mild and easy disposition (Puis.). 

Diseases of women : especially those occurring dur- 
ing pregnancy, childbed and lactation ; or diseases 
attended with sudden prostration and sinking faintness 

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SEPIA — ( Continued ) . 

(Murex, Nux m.) ; "the washerwoman's remedy," 
complaints that are brought on by or aggravated after 
laundry work. 

Pains extend from other parts to the back (rev. of 
Sab.) ; are attended with shuddering (with chilliness, 
Puis.). 

Particularly sensitive to cold air, " chills so easily;" 
lack of vital heat, especially in chronic diseases (in 
acute diseases, Led.). 

Sensation of a ball in inner parts ; during menses, 
pregnancy, lactation ; with constipation, diarrhoea, 
hemorrhoids, leucorrhcea and all uterine affections. 

Faints easily : after getting wet ; from extremes of 
heat or cold ; riding in a carriage ; while kneeling at 
church. 

Coldness of the vertex with headache (Ver. — heat 
of vertex, Calc, Graph., Sulph.). 

Anxiety : with fear, flushes of heat over face and 
head ; about real or imaginary evils ; toward evening. 

Great sadness and weeping. Dread of being alone ; 
of men ; of meeting friends ; with uterine troubles. 

Indifferent : even to one's family ; to one's occupa- 
tion (Fl. ac, Phos. ac.) ; to those whom she loves best. 

Greedy, miserly (Lye.). 

Indolent ; does not want to do anything, either work 
or play ; even an exertion to think. 

Headache : in terrific shocks ; at menstrual nisus, 
with scanty flow ; in delicate, sensitive, hysterical 
women ; pressing, bursting < motion, stooping, mental 
labor, > by external pressure, continued hard motion. 



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SEPIA — ( Coyitinued ) . 

Great falling of the hair, after chronic headaches 
or at the climacteric. 

Yellowness : of the face ; conjunctiva ; yellow spots 
on the chest ; a yellow saddle across the upper part of 
the cheeks and nose ; a " tell tale face " of uterine ail- 
ments. 

All the coverings of the neck felt too tight and 
were constantly loosened (Xach.). 

Herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of 
body (in intersecting rings over whole body, Tell.). 

Pot-belliedness of mothers (of children, Sulph.;. 

Painful sensation of emptiness, " all-gone feeling,' ' 
in the epigastrium, relieved by eating (Chel., Mur., 
Phos.). 

Tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual 
nisus, returns when flow ceases ; swelling and crack- 
ing of lower lip. 

Constipation : during pregnancy (Alum.) ; stool 
hard, knotty, in balls, insufficient, difficult ; pain in 
rectum during and long after stool (Nit. ac, Sulph.) ; 
sense of weight or ball in anus, not > by stool. 

Urine : deposits a reddish clay-colored sediment 
which adheres to the vessel as if it had been burned 
on ; fetid, so offensive must be removed from the room 
(horribly offensive after standing, Indium). 

Enuresis : bed is wet almost as soon as the child 
goes to sleep (Kreos.) ; always during the first sleep. 

Gleet : painless, yellowish, staining linen ; meatus 
glued together in morning ; obstinate, of long stand- 
ing (Kali iod.) ; sexual organs, weak and exhausted. 



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SEPIA — ( Contiiiued ) . 

Violent stitches upward in the vagina ; lancinating 
pains from the uterus to the umbilicus. 

Prolapse of uterus and vagina ; pressure and bear- 
ing down as if everything would protrude from 
pelvis ; must cross limbs tightly or " sit close " to 
prevent it ; with oppression of breathing (compare, 
Agar., Bell., LiL, Murex, Sanic). 

Irregular menses of nearly every form — early, late, 
scanty, profuse, amenorrhcea or menorrhagia — when 
associated with above-named symptoms. 

Morning sickness of pregnancy ; the sight or 
thought of food sickens (Nux) ; the smell of cook- 
ing food nauseates (Ars., Colch.). 

Dyspnoea : < sitting, after sleep, in room, > danc- 
ing or walking rapidly. 

Brythism ; flushes of heat from least motion ; with 
anxiety and faintness ; followed by perspiration over 
whole body ; climacteric (L,ach., Sang., Sulph., Tub.); 
ascends, from pelvic organs. 

Itching of skin ; of various parts ; of external geni- 
talia ; is not > by scratching, and is apt to change to 
burning (Sulph.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Natrum mur. 

Inimical : to, Lach., should not be used before or 
after ; to, Puis., with which it should never be alter- 
nated. 

Similar : to, Lach., Sang., Ustil., in climacteric ir- 
regularities of the circulation. 

Frequently indicated after : Sil., Sulph. 

A single dose often acts curatively for many weeks. 

Aggravation. — In afternoon or evening ; from cold 

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SEPIA — {Continued ) . 

air or dry east wind ; sexual excesses ; at rest ; sultry, 
moist weather ; before a thunderstorm (Psor.). 

Amelioration. — Warmth of bed, hot applications ; 
violent exercise. 

Many symptoms, especially those of head, heart 
and pelvis, are both < and > by rest and exercise. 

It antidotes mental effects of overuse of tobacco, in 
patients of sedentary habits who suffer from over- 
mental exertion. 



SII.ICEA. 

Pure Silica. Silicic Oxide. 

Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine tempera- 
ment ; persons of a psoric diathesis. 

Persons of light complexion ; fine, dry skin ; pale 
face ; weakly, with lax muscles. 

Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, 
not because food is lacking in quality or in quantity, 
but from imperfect assimilation (Bar. c, Calc); over- 
sensitive, physically and mentally. 

Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; 
open f ontanelles and sutures ; much sweating about 
the head (lower than Cal.), which must be kept warm 
by external covering (Sanic); distended abdomen; 
weak ankles ; slow in learning to walk. 

Great weariness and debility ; wants to lie down. 

Nervous debility ; exhaustion with erythism ; from 
hard work and close confinement ; may be overcome 
by force of will. 

Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise. 

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SIL,ICEA — ( Continued ) . 

Anxious, yielding, fainthearted. 

Mental labor very difficult ; reading and writing 
fatigue, cannot bear to think. 

Ailments : caused by suppressed foot-sweat (Cup., 
Graph., Psor.); exposing the head or back to any 
slight draught of air ; bad effects of vaccination, 
especially abscesses and convulsions (Thuja); chest 
complaints of stonecutters with total loss of strength. 

Want of vital heat, always chilly, even when taking 
active exercise (L,ed., Sep.). 

Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of glands, 
cervical, axillary, parotid, mammary, inguinal, seba- 
ceous ; malignant, gangrenous. 

Has a wonderful control over the suppurative pro- 
cess — soft tissue, periosteum or bone — maturing ab- 
scesses when desired or reducing excessive suppura- 
tion (affecting chiefly the soft tissues, Calend., Hep.). 

Children are obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken 
kindly to (Iod.). 

Vertigo : spinal, ascending from back of neck to 
head ; as if one would fall forward, from looking up 
(Puis. — looking down, Kal., Spig.). 

Chronic sick headaches, since some severe disease 
of youth (Psor.); ascending from nape of neck to the 
vertex, as if coming from the spine and locating in 
one eye, especially the right (left, Spig.) ; < draught 
of air or uncovering the head ; > pressure and wrap- 
ping up warmly (Mag. m., Stron.) ; > profuse 
urination. 

Constipation: always before and during menses 
(diarrhoea before and during menses, Am. c, Bov.) ; 

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SIL#ICEA — {Continued ) . 

difficult, as from inactivity of rectum; with great 
straining, as if rectum was paralyzed ; when partly 
expelled, recedes again (Thuja). 

Faeces remain a long time in the rectum. 

Fistula in ano alternates with chest symptoms 
(Berb., Cal. p.). 

Discharge of blood from vagina every time the 
child takes the breast (compare, Crot. t.). 

Nipple is drawn in like a funnel (Sars.). 

Night walking ; gets up while asleep, walks about 
and lies down again (Kali br.). 

Unhealthy skin ; every little injury suppurates 
(Graph., Hep., Merc, Petr.). 

Crippled nails on fingers and toes (Ant. a). 

Takes cold from exposure of feet (Con., Cup.). 

Sweat of hands, toes, feet and axillae ; offensive. 

Intolerable, sour, carrion-like odor of the feet, with- 
out perspiration, every evening. 

Fistula lachrymalis ; ingrowing toe-nails (Mag. p. a., 
Mar. v.) ; panaritium ; blood boils ; carbuncles ; ulcers 
of all kinds ; fistulse, painful, offensive, high spongy 
edges, proud flesh in them ; fissura ani ; great pain 
after stool. 

Desire to be magnetized, which > (Phos.). 

Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tis- 
sues ; fish bones, needles, bone splinters. 

Relations. — Complementary : Thuja, Sanicula. 

Compare : Hep., Pic. ac, Kali p., Hyper., Ruta, 
Sanic, Gettysburg. 

Follows well : after, Calc, Graph., Hep., Nit. ac, 

Phos. 

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SILrICI£A — {Continued ) . 

Is followed well : by, Hep., Fluor, ac, Lye, Sep. 

Aggravation. — Cold ; during menses ; during new 
moon ; uncovering, especially the head ; lying down. 

Amelioration. — Warmth, especially fiom wrapping 
up the head ; all the symptoms except gastric, which 
are > by cold food (Lye). 

Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla. 



SPIGEXIA. 

Pinkroot. Loganiacece. 

Adapted to anaemic debilitated subjects, of rheu- 
matic diathesis ; to scrofulous children afflicted with 
ascarides and lumbrici (Cina, Stan.). 

Persons with light hair ; pale, thin, bloated, weak ; 
wrinkled, yellow, earthy skin. 

Body painfully sensitive to touch ; part touched feels 
chilly ; touch sends shudder through the whole frame 
(Kali a). 

Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc. 

Rheumatic affections of heart (Kal., Led., Naja) ; 
systolic blowing at apex. Aneurism. 

Nervous headache ; periodical, beginning in morn- 
ing at base of brain, spreading over the head and 
locating in eye, orbit and temple of left side (right 
side, Sang., Sil.) ; pain, pulsating, violent, throbbing. 

Headache ; at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines 
till sunset (Nat. m., Tab.). 

Intolerable, pressive pain in eyeballs ; could not turn 



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SPIGEXIA— ( Continued). 

the eyes without turning the whole body ; worse, 
especially on making a false step. 

Sensation : as if eyes were too large for the orbits 
(Act., Com.) ; sensitive to touch ; as if a band around 
head (Cac, Carb. ac, Sulph.). 

Copious offensive mucus from posterior nares, drops 
into throat, causing choking at night (Hydr.). 

Sharp, stabbing, sticking pains through eyeballs 
back into the head ; from cold, damp, rainy weather. 

Prosopalgia : periodical, left-sided, orbit, eye, malar 
bone, teeth ; from morning until sunset ; pain tearing, 
burning, cheek dark red ; during cold, rainy weather ; 
from tea. 

Toothache from tobacco smoking ; > only on lying 
down and while eating (Plan.) ; worse from cold air 
and water ; returns from thinking about it. 

Scirrhus of sigmoid or rectum, atrocious unbearable 
pain (Alumen). 

Dyspnoea : must lie on right side or with head high 
(Cac, Spong.) ; pains in chest are stitching, needle- 
like. 

Chest affections with stitching pains synchronous 
with pulse, < from motion, < cold, wet weather. 

Palpitation : violent, visible and audible ; from least 
motion ; when bending forward ; systolic blowing at 
apex. 

Stammering, repeats first syllable three or four 
times ; with abdominal ailments ; with helminthiasis. 

Relations. — Compare : Aeon., Ars., Cact, Dig., 
Kali c, Naja, Kal., Spong., in heart affections. 

Aggravation. — From motion, noise, touch, turning 

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SPIGEXIA— ( Continued ) . 

the eyes ; from every shaking, cojnmotion, or concus- 
sion. 

Amelioration. — Lying on right side with the head 
high (Ars., Cac, Spong.). 



SPONGIA TOSTA. 

Roasted Sponge. Spongia. 

For the tubercular diathesis. 

Especially adapted to diseases of children and 
women ; light hair, lax fibre, fair complexion (Brom.). 

Swelling and induration of glands ; goitre (Brom.). 

Awakens in a fright and feels as if suffocating ; as 
if he had to breathe through a sponge. 

Every mental excitement < or increases the cough. 

Worse after sleep or sleeps into < (Lach.). 

Sore throat, < after eating sweet things. 

Thyroid gland swollen even with chin ; with suffo- 
cative paroxysms at night. Goitre. 

Great dryness of mucous membranes of air passages 
— throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi — "dry as a horn." 

Cough : dry, barking, croupy ; rasping, ringing, 
wheezing, whistling ; everything is perfectly dry, no 
mucous rale. 

Cough : dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a 
pine board ; < sweets, cold drinks, smoking, lying 
with head low, dry, cold winds ; < reading, singing, 
talking, swallowing ; > eating or drinking warm 
things. 

Croup : anxious, wheezing, < during inspiration 

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SPONGIA TOST A.— (Continued). 

(< during expiration, Aeon.) ; < before midnight 
(< before morning, Hep.). 

Palpitation : violent with pain and gasping respi- 
ration ; awakened suddenly after midnight with suf- 
focation and great anxiety ; valvular insufficiency ; 
before or during menses. 

Angina pectoris; contracting pain, heat, faintness, 
suffocation, anxiety and sweat ; < after midnight. 

Spermatic cord swollen, painful ; testicles swollen, 
bruised, squeezed ; after suppressed gonorrhoea or 
maltreated orchitis. 

Relations. — Spongia follows well : after, Aeon., 
Hep., in cough and croup, when dryness prevails ; 
after Spong., Hep., when mucus commences to rattle. 

Compare : Am., Caust, Iod., L,ach., Nux m., sputa 
loosened but must be swallowejd again. 

STAN1VXJM 

Tin. The Element. 

Extreme exhaustion of mind and body. 

Sinking, empty, all-gone sensation in stomach 
(Chel., Phos., Sep.). 

Sad, despondent, feels like crying all the time, but 
crying makes her worse (Nat. m., Puis., Sep.) ; faint 
and weak, especially when going down stairs ; can go 
up well enough (Bor. — rev. of Calc). 

Headache or neuralgia ; pains begin lightly and 
increase gradually to the highest point and then 
gradually decline (Plat.). 

Colic : > by hard pressure, or by laying abdomen 

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across knee or on shoulder (Col.) ; lumbrici ; passes 
worms. 

Menses ; too early, too profuse ; sadness before ; 
pain in malar bones, during. 

Leucorrhcea ; great debility ; weakness seems to pro- 
ceed from chest (from abdomen, pelvis, Phos., Sep.). 

Prolapsus, worse during stool (with diarrhoea, 
Pod.) ; so weak she drops into a chair instead of sitting 
down. 

While dressing in the morning has to sit down 
several times to rest. 

Nausea and vomiting ; in the morning ; from the 
odor of cooking food (Ars., Colch.). 

When singing or using the voice, aching and weak- 
ness in deltoid and arms. 

Great weakness in chest ; < from talking, laugh- 
ing, reading aloud, singing ; so weak, unable to talk. 

Cough : deep, hollow, shattering, strangling ; con- 
cussive, in paroxysms of three coughs (of two, Merc.) ; 
dry, while in bed, in evening ; ejnpty sensation hi chest. 

Expectoration ; profuse, like the white of an egg ; 
sweetish, salty (Kali i., Sep.) ; sour, putrid, musty ; 
yellow, green pus (heavy, green, salty, Kali i.) ; dur- 
ing the day. 

Hoarseness ; deep, husky, hollow voice ; relieved 
for the time by coughing or expectorating mucus. 

Sweat : mouldy, musty odor ; after 4 A. M. every 
morning ; on neck and forehead ; very debilitating. 

Relations. — Complementary : Pulsatilla. 

Aggravation. — laughing and singing, talking, 



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ST ANNUM— ( Continued ) . 

using the voice ; lying on right side ; drinking any- 
thing warm (from cold drinks, Spong.). 

Amelioration. — Conghing or expectorating relieves 
hoarseness ; hard pressure (Col.). 

Stannum follows well : after, Canst., and is followed 
by CaL, Phos., Sil., Sulph., Tub. 



STAPHISAGRIA. 

Stavesacre. Ranunculacece. 

For the mental effects of onanism and sexual ex- 
cesses. 

Very sensitive to slightest mental impressions ; least 
action or harmless word offends (Ign.). 

Great indignation about things done by others or by 
himself ; grieves about consequences. 

Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory 
from sexual abuses (Anac, Aur., Nat., Phos. ac). 

Ailments from pride, envy or chagrin. 

Ill-humored children cry for things which, after re- 
ceiving, they petulantly push or throw away (Kreos.). 

Was insulted ; being too dignified to fight subdued 
his wrath and went home sick, trembling and ex- 
hausted (the rev. of, Nux). 

Sensation of a round ball in forehead sitting firmly 
there even when shaking the head. 

Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments ; 
post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting pains, 
like the cutting of a knife. 

For the bad effects of : onanism, sexual excesses, 

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ST APHIS AGRIA— ( Co?itinued ) . 

loss of vital fluids ; chagrin, mortification, unmerited 
insults ; indignation, with vexation or reserved dis- 
pleasure (Aur.). 

Nervous weakness ; as if done up after much hard 
work. 

Styes, chalazce on eyelids or upper lids, one after an- 
other, leaving hard nodosities in their wake (Con., 
Thuja). 

Toothache: during menses; sound as well as de- 
cayed teeth ; painful to touch of food or drink, but not 
from biting or chewing ; < drawing cold air into 
mouth ; < from cold drinks and after eating. 

Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them ; 
cannot be kept clean ; crumble ; decay on edges (at 
the roots, Mez., Thuja) ; scorbutic cachexia. 

Craving for tobacco. 

Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food. 

Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging 
down, relaxed (Agar., Ipec, Tab.). 

Colic: after lithotomy or ovariotomy ; attending ab- 
dominal section (Bis., Hep.). 

Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours ; in 
young married women ; after coition ; after difficult 
labor (Op.) ; burning in urethra when not urinating ; 
urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of 
old men ; prolapse of bladder. 

Painful sensitiveness of sexual organs, vulva so sen- 
sitive can scarcely wear a napkin (Plat.). 

Onanism ; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects ; 
constantly thinking of sexual pleasures. 

Spermatorrhoea : with sunken features ; guilty, 

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STAPIIISAGRIA— ( Continued ) . 

abashed look ; emissions followed by backache, weak- 
ness ; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of sexual 
organs. 

Cough : only in the daytime, or only after dinner, 
worse after eating meat ; after vexation or indigna- 
tion ; excited by cleaning the teeth. 

Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in 
summer ; cough excited by tobacco smoke (Spong.). 

Backache, < at night in bed, and in the morning 
before rising. 

Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the 
fingers (Caul., Colch., Lye.) ; inflammation of pha- 
langes with sweating and suppuration. 

Sleepy all day, awake all night ; body aches all over. 

In fever ; ravenous hunger for days before attack. 

Eczema : yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under 
crusts ; new vesicles form from contact of exudation ; 
by scratching one place itching ceases, but appears in 
another. 

Fig-warts ; dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like ; after 
abuse of mercury (Nit. ac, Sab., Thuja). 

Relations. — Compare: Caust, Col., Ign., Iyva,Puls. 

Col. and Staph, act well after each other ; Caust., 
Col., Staph., follow well in order named. 

Aggravation. — Mental affections ; from anger, in- 
dignation, grief, mortification ; loss of fluids ; tobacco ; 
onanism ; sexual excesses ; from the least touch on 
affected parts. 

Inimical ; Ran. bulb., either before or after. 



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STRAMONIUM. 

Thorn Apple. Solanacece. 

Adapted to : ailments of young plethoric persons 
(Aeon., Bell.); especially children in chorea ; mania 
and fever delirium. 

Delirium : loquacious, talks all the time, sings, 
makes verses, raves ; simulates Bell, and Hyos., yet 
differs in degree. 

The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, 
while the congestion, though greater than Hyos., is 
much less than Bell., never approaching a true in- 
flammation. 

Disposed to talk continually (Cic, I^ach.); incessant 
and incoherent talking and laughing ; praying, be- 
seeching, entreating ; with suppressed menses. 

Desires light and company ; cannot bear to be 
alone (Bis.); worse in the dark and solitude ; cannot 
walk in a dark room. 

Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the 
first object seen. 

Hallucinations which terrify the patient. 

Desire to escape, in delirium (Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus). 

Imagines all sorts of things ; that she is double, 
lying crosswise, etc. (Petr.). 

Head feels as if scattered about (Bap.). 

Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant ; pupils widely 
dilated, insensible ; contortion of eyes and eyelids. 

Pupils dilate when child is reprimanded. 

Face hot and red with cold hands and feet ; circum- 
scribed redness of cheeks, blood rushes to face ; risus 
sardonicus. 

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STRAMONIUM— ( Continued ) . 

Stammering ; has to exert himself a long time be- 
fore he can ntter a word ; makes great effort to speak ; 
distorts the face (Bov., Ign., Spig.). 

Vomiting : as soon as he raises head from pillow ; 
from a bright light. 

Convulsions : with consciousness (Nux — without, 
Bell., Cic, Hyos., Op.); renewed by sight of bright 
light, of mirror or water (Bell., L,ys.). 

Twitching of single muscles or groups of muscles, 
especially upper part of body ; chorea. 

Hydrophobia : fear of water, with excessive aversion 
to liquids (Bell., I/ys.); spasmodic constriction of 
throat. 

No pain with most complaints ; painlessness is 
characteristic (Op.). 

Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Cham., Op.). 

Relations. — Stramonium often follows ; Bell., Cup., 
Hyos., Iyys. 

In metrorrhagia from retained placenta with charac- 
teristic delirium, Sec. often acts promptly when Stram. 
has failed (with fever and septic tendency, Pyr.). 

After overaction, from repeated doses of Bell, in 
whooping-cough. 

Aggravation. — In the dark ; when alone; looking 
at bright or shining objects ; after sleep (Apis, Iyach., 
Op., Spong.); when attempting to swallow. 

Amelioration. — From bright light ; from company; 
warmth. 



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SUUPMUR. 

Brimstone ; Flowers of Sulphur. The Element. 

Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, subject 
to venous congestions ; especially of portal system. 

Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, 
quick tempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive 
to atmospheric changes (Hep., Kali c, Psor.). 

For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and 
sit stooped ; walk stooping like old men. 

Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; 
they cannot stand ; every standing position is un- 
comfortable. 

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections (Psor.). 

Aversion to being washed ; always < after abath. 
Too lazy to rouse himself ; too unhappy to live. 

Children : cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in 
cold water, Ant. c.) ; emaciated, big-bellied ; restless, 
hot, kick off the clothes at night (Hep., Sanic.) ; have 
worms, but the best selected remedy fails. 

When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a 
favorable effect, especially in acute diseases, it fre- 
quently serves to rouse the reactive powers of the 
system ; clears up the case (in chronic diseases, Psor.). 

Scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from 
suppressed eruptions (Caust, Psor.). 

Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, 
leucorrhcea, etc.) ; patient seems to get almost well 
when the disease returns again and again. 

Congestions to single parts ; eyes, nose, chest, abdo- 
men, ovaries, arms, legs, or any organ of the body 
marking the onset of tumors or malignant growths, 
especially at climacteric. 

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SULPHUR— ( Continued ) . 

Sensation of burning : on vertex ; and smarting in 
eyes ; in face, without redness ; of vesicles in mouth ; 
and dryness of throat, first r. then 1. ; in stomach ; in 
rectum ; in anus, and itching piles, and scalding 
urine ; like fire in ripples (Ars.) ; in chest, rising to 
face ; of skin of whole body, with hot flushes ; in 
spots, between scapulae (Phos.). 

Sick headache every week or every two weeks ; 
prostrating, weakening (Sang.) ; with hot vertex and 
cold feet. 

Constant heat on vertex ; cold feet in daytime, with 
burning soles at night, wants to find a cool place for 
them (Sang., Sanic.) ; puts them out of bed to cool 
them off (Med.) ; cramps in calves and soles at night. 

Hot flushes during the day, with weak, faint spells, 
passing off with a little moisture. 

Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst 
through (Tub.). 

Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach 
about ii A. M. (10 or n A. m. > by eating, Nat. c.) ; 
cannot wait for lunch ; frequent weak, faint spells 
during the day (compare, Zinc). 

Diarrhoea : after midnight ; painless ; driving out of 
bed early in the morning (Aloe, Psor.) ; as if the 
bowels were too weak to retain their contents. 

Constipation : stools hard, knotty, dry as if burnt 
(Bry.); large, painful, child is afraid to have the stool 
on account of pain, or pain compels child to desist on 
first effort ; alternating with diarrhoea. 

The discharge both of urine and feces is painful to 
parts over which it passes ; passes large quantities of 

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SULPHUR— ( Continued ) . 

colorless urine ; parts round anus red, excoriated ; all 

the orifices of the body are very red ; all discharges 
acrid, excoriating wherever they touch. 

Menses : too early, profuse, protracted. 

Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last mis- 
carriage. "A single dose at new moon." — Ljppe. 

Boils : coming in crops in various parts of the 
body, or a single boil is succeeded by another as soon 
as first is healed (Tub.). 

Skin: itching, voluptuous; scratching >; "feels 
good to scratch ;" scratching causes burning ; < from 
heat of bed (Mer.) ; soreness in folds (Lye). 

Skin affections that have been treated by medicated 
soaps and washes ; hemorrhoids, that have been treated 
with ointments. 

To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory 
exudates in brain, pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia, 
Kali mur. or the best selected remedy fails. 

Chronic alcoholism ; dropsy and other ailments of 
drunkards ; " they reform," but are continually re- 
lapsing (Psor., Tub.). 

Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and 
windows open ; becomes suddenly wide awake at 
night ; drowsy in afternoon after sunset, wakefulness 
the whole night. 

Happy dreams, wakes up singing. 

Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a 
fancy to ; even rags seem beautiful. 

Movement in abdomen as of a child (Croc, Thuja). 

Relations. — Complementary : Aloe, Psor. 

Ailments from the abuse of metals generally. 

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SULPHUR— ( Continued). 

Compatible : Calc, Lye, Puis., Sars., Sep. 

Sulph., Calc., Lye.; or Sulph., Sars. and Sep. fre- 
quently follow in given order. 

Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur. 

Sulphur is the chronic of Aconite and follows it 
well in pneumonia and other acute diseases. 

Aggravation. — At rest ; when standing ; warmth in 
bed ; washing, bathing; changeable weather (Rhus). 

Amelioration. — Dry, warm weather ; lying on the 
right side (rev. of, Stan.). 



SULPHURIC ACIO. 



Sulphuric Acid. 



so 3 . 



Adapted to the light-haired ; old people, especially 
women ; flushes of heat in climacteric years. 

Unwilling to answer questions not from obstinacy, 
but inaptness. 

Feels in a great hurry ; everything must be done 
quickly (Arg. n.). 

Pain of gradual and slowly-increasing intensity 
which ceases suddenly when at its height, often re- 
peated (Puis.). 

The pain is pressure as of a blunt instrument. 
Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries, 
especially of old people. 

Child has a sour odor despite careful washing 
(Hep., Mag. c, Rheum). 

Sensation as if the brain was loose in forehead and 
falling from side to side (Bell., Bry., Rhus, Spig.). 

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SULPHURIC ACID— ( Continued ) . 

Aphthae ; of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity ; 
gums bleed readily ; ulcers painful ; offensive breath 
(Bor.). 

Chronic heartburn, sour eructations, sets teeth on 
edge (Rob.). 

Water drank causes coldness of the stomach unless 
mixed with alcoholic liquor. 

Sensation as if trembling all over, without real 
trembling ; internal trembling of drunkards. 

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises, 
chafing and livid skin ; prostration (Acet. ac). 

Kcchymosis ; cicatrices turn blood-red or blue, are 
painful (turn green, Led.). 

Petechia : purpura hemorrhagica ; blue spots ; 
livid, red itching blotches. 

Hemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of 
the body (Crot, Mur. ac, Nit. ac, Ter.). 

Concussion of brain from fall or blow where skin is 
cold and body bathed in cold sweat. 

Weak and exhausted from some deep-seated dys- 
crasia ; no other symptoms (Psor., Sulph.). 

Relations. — Complementary : Puis. 

Compare: Arm, Bor., Calend., Led., Ruta, Rheum, 
Symp. 

In contusion and laceration of soft parts it vies with 
Calendula. 

Follows well : after, Arn. with bruised pain, livid 
skin and profuse sweat ; after, Led. in ecchymosis. 

Ailments, from brandy drinking. 

Sulphuric acid, one part, with three parts of alcohol, 10 to 15 
drops, three times daily for three or four weeks, has been success- 
fully used to subdue the craving for liquor. — Hering. 

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SYMPHYTUM. 

Comfrey. Borraginacece. 

Facilitates union of fractured bones (Cal. p.) ; 
lessens peculiar pricking pain; favors production of 
callous ; when trouble is of nervous origin. 

Irritability at point of fracture ; periosteal pain 
after wounds Have healed. 

Mechanical injuries ; blows, bruises, thrusts on 
the globe of the eye. 

Pain in eye after a blow of an obtuse body ; snow 
ball strikes the eye ; infant thrusts its fist into its 
mother's eye (to soft tissues around the eye, Arn.). 

Relations. — Compare: Arn., Calend., Cal. p., 
Fluor. ac.,Hep., Sil. 

Follows well : after, Arnica, for pricking pain, and 
soreness of periosteum remaining after an injury. 



SYPHIMNUM. 

Syphilitic Virus. A Nosode. 

Pains from darkness to daylight ; begin with 
twilight and end with daylight (Merc, Phyt). 

Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stan.) ; shift- 
ing and require frequent change of position. 

All symptoms are worse at night (Merc.) ; from 
sundown to sunrise. 

Eruptions : dull, red, copper-colored spots, becom- 
ing blue when getting cold. 

Extreme emaciation of entire body (Abrot., Iod.). 

Heart : lancinating pains from base to apex, at 

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SYPMIUnVUM— ( Continued ) . 

night (from apex to base, Med.; from base to clavicle, 
or shoulder, Spig.). 

Loss of memory ; cannot remember names of books, 
persons or places ; arithmetical calculation difficult. 

Sensation : as if going insane ; as if about to be par- 
alyzed ; of apathy and indifference. 

Terrible dread of night on account of mental and 
physical exhaustion on awakening ; it is intolerable, 
death is preferable. 

Fears the terrible suffering from exhaustion on 
awakening (Lach.). 

Leucorrhcea ; profuse, soaking through the napkins 
and running down to the heels (Alum.). 

Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleepless- 
ness and delirium at night ; commencing at 4 P. M. ; 
worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at daylight (ceases at 
11 or 12 p. m., Lye); falling of the hair. 

Acute ophthalmia neonatorum ; lids swollen, adhere 
during sleep ; pain intense at night < from 2 to 5 
A. M. ; pus profuse ; > by cold bathing. 

Ptosis : paralysis of superior oblique ; sleepy look 
from drooping lids (Caust, Graph.). 

Diplopia, one image seen below the other. 

Teeth : decay at edge of gum and break off ; are 
cupped, edges serrated ; dwarfed in size, converge at 
their tips (Staph.). 

Craving alcohol, in any form. Hereditary tendency 
to alcoholism (Asar., Psor., Tuber., Sulph., Sulph. ac). 

Obstinate constipation for years ; rectum seems tied 
up with strictures ; when enema were used the agony 
of passage was like labor (Lac d., Tub.). 

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S YPHILINUM- ( Continued ) . 

Fissures in anus and rectum (Thuja) ; prolapse of 
rectum ; obstinate cases with a syphilitic history. 

Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion 
of deltoid, < from raising arm laterally (Rhus — r. 
shoulder, Sang.; left, Fer.). 

When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or 
permanently improve, in syphilitic affections. 

Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre 
treated by local means, and as a result have suffered 
from throat and skin troubles for years, are nearly 
always benefited by this remedy at commencement of 
treatment unless some other remedy is clearly in- 
dicated. 

Relations. — Compare : Aur., Asaf., Kali i., Merc, 
Phyt, in bone diseases and syphilitic affections. 

Aggravation. — At night, from twilight to daylight. 



TABACIIM. 

Tobacco. Solanacece. 

Diseases originating in cerebral irritation followed 
by marked irritation of functions of vagi. 

Emaciation of cheeks and back. 

Complete prostration of entire muscular system. 

Sensation of excessive wretchedness. 

Icy coldness of surface ; covered with cold sweat. 

Symptoms occur in paroxysms — asthma, sick head- 
ache, vertigo, sneezing. 

Great despondency with indigestion, palpitation, in- 
termittent pulse. 

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TABACUM — ( Continued ) . 

Vertigo : death-like pallor, increasing to loss of con- 
sciousness ; relieved in open air and by vomiting ; on 
rising or looking upward ; on opening the eyes. 

Sick headache coming on in early morning, intoler- 
able by noon, deathly nausea, violent vomiting ; < by 
noise and light ; periodical, lasting one or two days. 

Sudden pain on right side of head as if struck by a 
hammer or a club. 

Dim-sighted ; sees as through a veil ; strabismus, 
depending upon brain troubles. 

Amaurosis, from atrophy of retina or optic nerve. 

Face pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered 
with cold sweat (cold sweat on forehead, Ver.). 

Nausea ; incessant, as if seasick ; vomiting, on least 
motion ; with faintness ; > in open air. 

Vomiting : violent, with cold sweat ; soon as he 
begins to move ; during pregnancy, when Lactic acid 
fails (Psor.). 

Seasickness ; deathly nausea, pallor, coldness ; < by 
least motion and > on deck in fresh, cold air. 

Terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach. 

Sense of relaxation of stomach with nausea (Ipec, 
Staph".). 

Child wants abdomen uncovered ; relieves nausea and 
vomiting ; coldness in abdomen (Colch., Blaps, L,ach.). 

Constipation : inactive bowel or paralysis of rectum ; 
spasms of sphincter ; prolapsus ani ; of years' stand- 
ing ; herpes of anus. 

Diarrhoea : sudden, yellowish, greenish, slimy ; 
urgent, watery ; with nausea, vomiting, prostration and 



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TABACUM— ( Continued ) . 

cold sweat (Ver.) ; with extreme faintness ; from ex- 
cessive smoking. 

Renal colic : violent spasmodic pains along ureter, 
left side (Berb.) ; deathly nausea and cold perspiration. 

Palpitation : violent when lying on left side ; goes 
off when turning to the right. 

Pulse : quick, full, large ; small, intermittent, ex- 
ceedingly slow ; feeble, irregular, almost imperceptible. 

Hands icy cold, body warm. 

Legs icy cold, from knees down ; trembling of limbs. 

Relations. — Antidotes, for abuse of tobacco, are : 

Ipec, for excessive nausea and vomiting. 

Ars., for bad effects of tobacco chewing. 

Nux, for the gastric symptoms next morning after 
smoking. 

Phos., palpitation, tobacco heart, sexual weakness. 

Ign., for annoying hiccough frorfi tobacco chewing. 

Clem, or Plant., for tobacco toothache. 

Sep., neuralgic affections of right side of face ; dys- 
pepsia ; chronic nervousness, especially in sedentary 
occupations. 

Ivyc, for impotence, spasms, cold sweat from excess- 
ive smoking. 

Gels., occipital headache and vertigo from excessive 
use, especially smoking. 

Tabacum, potentized (200 or 1000) to relieve ter- 
rible craving when discontinuing use. 

Amelioration. — Open, fresh, cold air ; uncovering. 



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TARAXACUM. 

Dandelion. Composites. 

For gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric 
headaches. 

Mapped tongue (I^ach., Mer., Nat. m.); covered 
with a white film with sensation of rawness. This 
film comes off in patches, leaving dark red, tender, 
very sensitive spots (Ran. s.). 

Jaundice with enlargement and induration of liver 
(mapped tongue). 

Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night sweats, espe- 
cially when convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever. 

Restlessness of limbs in typhoid (Rhus, Zinc). 

Relations. — Compare: Bry., Chel., Hydr., Nux, in 
gastric and bilious affections. 

Aggravation. — Almost all symptoms appear when 
sitting ; lying down ; resting. 



TARANTULA. 

Tarantula ; Cuban and Spanish. Araneidecs. 

Adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially 
choreic affections where whole body, or right arm and 
left leg are affected (left arm and right leg, Agar.). 

Constant movement of the legs, arms, trunk, with 
inability to do anything ; twitching and jerking of 
muscles. 

Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position ; 
must keep in motion, though walking < all symptoms 
(rev. of, Rhus, Ruta). 

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TARAIVXUI^A— ( Continued ) . 

Hyperesthesia : least excitement irritates, followed 
by languid sadness ; extreme of tips of fingers. 

Slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic 
pain in chest and cardiac region. 

Headache ; intense, as if thousands of needles were 
pricking in the brain. 

Abscesses, boils, felons, affected parts of a bluish 
color (L,ach.), and atrocious burning pain (Anth., Ars.); 
the agony of a felon, compelling patient to walk the 
floor for nights. 

Malignant ulcers ; carbuncle, anthrax ; gangrene. 

Symptoms appear periodically. 

Headache, neuralgic < by noise, touch, strong light, 
> by rubbing head against the pillow. 

At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue 
intolerably dry, especially when sleeping (Nux m.). 

Sexual excitement extreme even to mania ; spasms 
of uterus ; pruritus vulva becomes intolerable. 

Relations. — Similar: to, Apis, Crot, L,ach., Plat, 
Mygale, Naja, Ther. 

Aggravation. — Motion; contact; touch of affected 
parts ; noise ; change of weather. 

Amelioration. — In open air ; music ; rubbing af- 
fected parts. 

Termini of nerves became so irritated and sensitive 
that some kind of friction is necessary to obtain re- 
lief. 



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TEREBIIVTM. 

Oil of Turpentine. A Volatile Oil. 

The urine has the odor of violets. 

Tongue ; smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of 
papillae, or as if glazed (Pyr.); elevated papillae ; coat- 
ing peels off in patches leaving bright red spots, or 
entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata); 
dry and red ; burning in tip (compare, Mur. ac). 

Abdomen : extremely sensitive to touch ; distension, 
flatulence, excessive tympanitis ; meteorism (Colch.). 

Diarrhoea: stool, watery, greenish, mucous ; frequent, 
profuse, fetid, bloody ; burning in anus and rectum, 
fainting and exhaustion, after (Ars.). 

Worms : with foul breath, choking (Cina, Spig.); 
dry, hacking cough ; tickling at anus ; ascarides, 
lumbrici, tapeworm segments passed. 

Hematuria : blood, thoroughly mixed with the urine ; 
sediment, like coffee-grounds ; cloudy, smoky, albumi- 
nous ; profuse, dark or black, pai7iless. 

Congestion and inflammation of viscera ; kidneys, 
bladder, lungs, intestines, uterus ; with hemorrhage, 
and malignant tendency. 

Purpura hemorrhagica ; fresh ecchymoses in great 
numbers from day to day (Sulph. ac). 

Ascites with anasarca, in organic lesions of kidneys ; 
dropsy after scarlatina (Apis, Hell., I,ach.). 

Hemorrhages ; from bowels, with ulceration ; pass- 
ive, dark with ulceration or epithelial degeneration. 

Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, blad- 
der and urethra (Berb., Can., Canth.). 

Violent burning and cutting in bladder ; tenesmus ; 

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TEREBINTH— ( Continued ) . 

sensitive hypogastrium ; cystitis and retention from 
atony of fundus. 

Albuminuria ; acute, in early stages, when blood 
and albumen abound more than casts and epithelium ; 
after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid. 

Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any 
casts ; < from living in damp dwellings. 

Strangury ; spasmodic retention of urine. 

Relations. — Compare : Alumen, Arn., Ars., Canth.,, 
I^ach., Nit. ac. 

Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and 
African fevers. 



THERIDION CURASSAVICUM. 

Orange Spider. Araneidecg. 

Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg. n., Can. I., 
Nux m.). 

Vertigo : on closing the eyes (I^ach., Thuja — on 
opening them, Tab.; on looking upward, Puis., Sil.); 
from any, even least noise ; aural or labyrinthine 
(Meniere's disease). 

Nausea : from least motion, and especially on closing 
the eyes ; from fast riding in a carriage. 

Headache : when beginning to move, as of a dull 
heavy pressure behind the eyes ; violent, deep, in the 
brain ; < lying down (L,ach.); very much < from 
others walking on the floor, or from least motion of 
head. 

Every sound seems to penetrate through the whole 
body, causing nausea and vertigo. 

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THERIOIOX CURASS AVICUM— ( ConV d ) . 

Chronic nasal catarrh ; discharge thick, yellow, 
greenish, offensive (Puis., Thuja). 

Toothache ; every shrill sound penetrates the teeth. 

Seasickness of nervous women ; they close their 
eyes to get rid of the motion of the vessel and grow 
deathly sick. 

Violent stitches in upper left chest, below the 
scapula, extending to neck (Anis., Myr., Pix, Sulph.). 

Pains in the bones all over, as if broken. 

Great sensitiveness between vetebrse, sits sideways 
in a chair to avoid pressure against spine (Chin, s.); 
< by least noise and jar of foot on floor. 

For extreme nervous sensitiveness ; of puberty, dur- 
ing pregnancy and climacteric years. 

" In rachitis, caries, necrosis, it apparently goes to 
the root of the evil and destroys the cause." — Dr. 
Baruch. 

Phthisis florida, often effects a cure if given in the 
early stages of disease. 

In scrofulosis where the best chosen remedies fail 
to relieve. 

Relations. — Follows well : after, Cal. and I^yc. 



THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS. 

Shepherd' ] s Purse. Cruciferce. 

Profuse passive hemorrhage from every outlet of 
the body ; blood dark and clotted. 

Metrorrhagia : with violent cramps and uterine 

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TMI.ASPI BURSA PASTORIS— (Contin'd). 

colic ; in chlorosis ; after abortion, labor, miscarriage ; 
at climacteric ; with cancer uteri (Phos., Ust.). 

Menses : too early ; too profuse ; protracted (eight, 
ten, even fifteen days) ; tardy in starting, first day 
merely a show ; second day colic, vomiting, a hemor- 
rhage with large clots ; each alternate period more 
profuse. 

Hemorrhage or delaying menses from uterine in- 
ertia ; exhausting, scarcely recovers from one period 
before another begins. 

Leucorrhcea : bloody, dark, offensive ; some days 
before and after menses. 

Relations. — Compare: Sinapis, Trillium, Vi- 
burnum, Ustilago. 



THUJA OCCIDENTALS. 

Tree of Life ; White Cedar. Coniferce. 

Adapted to hydrogenoid constitution of Grauvogl, 
which is related to sycosis as effect is to cause. 

Thuja bears the same relation to the sycosis of 
Hahnemann — fig warts, condylomata and wart-like 
excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces — 
that Sulphur does to psora, or Mercury to syphilis. 

Acts well in lymphatic temperament, in very fleshy 
persons, dark complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin. 

Ailments : from bad effects of vaccination (Ant. t., 
Sil.); from suppressed or maltreated gonorrhoea (Med.). 

Fixed ideas : as if a strange person were at his 
side ; as if soul and body were separated ; as if a liv- 

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THUJA OCCIDENTALIS-(0»ft'»«^). 

ing animal were in abdomen ; of being under the in- 
fluence of a superior power. 

Insane women will not be touched or approached. 

Vertigo, when closing the eyes (Lach., Ther.). 

Headache : as if a nail had been driven into pari- 
etal bone (CofL, Ign.) ; or as if a convex button were 
pressed on the part ; < from sexual excesses ; over- 
heating ; from tea (Sel.) ; chronic, of sycotic or syphi- 
litic origin. 

White scaly dandruff ; hair dry and falling out. 

Eyes : ophthalmia neonatorum, sycotic or syphi- 
litic ; large granulations, like warts or blisters ; > by 
warmth and covering ; if uncovered, feels as if a cold 
stream of air were blowing out through them. 

Eyelids : agglutinated at night ; dry, seal)- on 
edges ; styes and tarsal tumors ; chalazse, thick, hard 
knots, like small condylomata ; after Staphisagria 
partially > but does not cure. 

Ears : chronic otitis ; discharge purulent, like 
putrid meat ; granulations, condylomata ; polypi, pale 
red, cellular, bleeding easily. 

Chronic catarrh : after exanthemata ; thick, green 
mucus, blood and pus (Puis.). 

Teeth decay at the roots, crowns remain sound (Mez. 
— on edges, Staph.) ; crumble, turn yellow (Syph.). 

Ranula : bluish, or varicose veins on tongue or in 
mouth (Amb.). 

Toothache from tea drinking. 

" On blowing the nose a pressing pain in the hollow 
tooth or at the side of it (Culex)." — Boenninghausen. 

Abdomen : as if an animal were crying ; motion as 

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THUJA OCCIDENTALS— {Continued). 

if something alive ; protrudes here and there like the 
arm of a foetus (Croc, Nux m., Sulph.). 

Distressing, burning pain in left ovarian region 
when walking or riding, must sit or lie down (Croc., 
Ust.) ; worse at each menstrual nisus. 

Constipation : violent pains in rectum compel ces- 
sation of effort ; stool recedes, after being partly ex- 
pelled (Sanic, Sil.). 

Piles swollen, pain most severe when sitting. 

Diarrhoea : early morning ; expelled forcibly with 
much flatus (Aloe) ; gurgling, as water from a bung- 
hole ; < after breakfast, coffee, fat food, vaccination, 
onions. 

Anus fissured, painful to touch, surrounded with 
flat warts, or moist mucous condylomata. 

Coition prevented by extreme sensitiveness of the 
vagina (Plat. — by dryness, Ivyc, L,ys., Natr.). 

Skin : looks dirty ; brown or brownish-white spots 
here and there ; warts, large, seedy, pedunculated 
(Staph.) ; eruptions only on covered parts, burn after 
scratching. 

Flesh feels as if beaten, from the bones (Phyt. — as 
if scraped, Rhus). 

Sensation after urinating, as of urine trickling in 
urethra ; severe cutting at close of urination (Sars.). 

Chill, beginning in the thighs. 

Sweat : only on uncovered parts, or all over except 
the head (rev. of Sil.) ; when he sleeps, stops when he 
wakes (rev. of Samb.); profuse, sour smelling, fetid 
at night. 



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THUJA OCCIDENTALIS-(G«/m^). 

Perspiration, smelling like honey, on the genitals. 

When walking the limbs feel as if made of wood. 

Sensation as if the body, especially the limbs, were 
made of glass and would break easily. 

Suppressed gonorrhoea : causing articular rheuma- 
tism ; prostatitis ; sycosis ; impotence ; condylomata, 
and many constitutional troubles. 

Nails : deformed, brittle (Ant. a). 

Relations. — Complementary : Med., Sab., Sil. 

Compare : Cann. s., Canth., Cop., Staph. 

Cinnab. is preferable for warts on the prepuce. 

Follows well : after, Med., Mer., Nit. ac. 

Aggravation. — At night ; from heat of bed ; at 3 
A. M. and 3 p. m. ; from cold, damp air ; narcotics. 



TRILLIUM PENDULUM. 

Wake Robin. Smilacece. 

Hemorrhage : copious, both active and passive, 
usually bright red ; from nose, lungs, kidneys and 
uterus (Ipec, Mill.). 

Tendency to putrescence of fluids. 

Kpistaxis ; profuse, passive, bright red. 

Bleeding from cavity after extraction of a tooth 
(Ham., Kreos.). 

Menses : profuse, every two weeks, lasting a week 
or longer (Calc. p.) ; after over-exertion or too long a 
ride. 

Flooding, with fainting. 

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TRIUJUM PENDULUM-(G?»ft»^). 

Menorrhagia : flow, profuse, gushing, bright red ; 
at least movement (Sab.) ; from displaced uterus ; at the 
climacteric ; every two weeks, dark, clotted (Thlas.> 
Ust). 

Hemoptysis : incipient phthisis, with bloody sputa ; 
in advanced stages, with copious, purulent expectora- 
tion and troublesome cough. 

Sensation as if hips and small of back were falling 
to pieces ; as if sacro-iliac synchondroses were falling 
apart, wants to be bound tightly ; as if bones of pelvis 
were broken (^Bsc.) ; with hemorrhage. 

Profuse uterine hemorrhage at climacteric ; flow 
every two weeks ; pale, faint, dim sight, palpitation, 
obstruction and noises in ears (Fer.) ; painful sinking 
at pit of stomach. 

Relations. — Complementary: to, Cal. p. in men- 
strual and hemorrhagic affections. 

Compare : Cinch., Bell., Kali c, Mill., J^ach., Sep., 
Sulph., Thlas., Ust. 



TUBERCULINUM-BACILLINUM.* 

Pus (with bacilli) from tubercular abscess. A Nosode* 

Adapted to persons of light complexion ; blue eyes, 
blonde in preference to brunette ; tall, slim, flat, 

The potencies of Fincke and Swan were prepared from a drop of 
pus obtained from a pulmonary tubercular abscess or sputa. Those 
of Heath from a tuberculous lung in which the bacillus tuberculo- 
sis had been found microscopically; hence the former was called 
Tuberculinum and the latter Bacillinum. Both preparations are 
reliable and effective. 

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TUBKRCUI.I]VtJM-BACII.IJWIJM— ( Con'd). 

narrow chest ; active and precocious mentally, weak 
physically ; the tubercular diathesis. 

When with a family history of tubercular affections 
the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently 
improve, without reference to name of disease. 

Symptoms ever changing ; ailments affecting one 
organ, then another — the lungs, brain, kidneys, liver, 
stomach, nervous system — beginning suddenly, ceas- 
ing suddenly. 

Takes cold easily without knowing how or where ; 
seems to take cold " every time he takes a breath of 
fresh air " (Hep.). 

Emaciation rapid and pronounced ; losing flesh 
while eating well (Abrot, Calc, Con., Iod., Nat.). 

Melancholy, despondent ; morose, irritable, fretful, 
peevish ; taciturn, sulky ; naturally of a sweet dispo- 
sition, now on the borderland of insanity. 

Everything in the room seemed strange, as though 
in a strange place. 

Headache : chronic, tubercular ; pain intense, sharp, 
cutting, from above r. eye to occiput ; as of an iron 
hoop around head (Anac, Sulph.) ; when the best 
selected remedy only palliates. 

School-girl's headache : < by study or even slight 
mental exertion ; when using eyes in close work and 
glasses fail to > ; with a tubercular history. 

Acute cerebral or basilar meningitis, with threat- 
ened effusion ; nocturnal hallucinations ; wakes from 
sleep frightened, screaming; when Apis, Hell., or 
Sulph., though well selected, fail to improve. 



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TUBERCUI*I:NUM-BACIIJLI:NUM— ( Con'd). 

Crops of small boils, intensely painful, successively 
appear in the nose ; green, fetid pus (Sec). 

Plica polonica ; several bad cases permanently 
cured after Bor. and Psor. failed. 

Diarrhoea : early morning, sudden, imperative 
(Sulph.) ; emaciating though eating well (Iod., Nat.) ; 
stool dark, brown, watery, offensive ; discharged with 
great force ; great weakness and profuse night sweats. 

Menses : too early ; too profuse ; too long-lasting ; 
tardy in starting ; with frightful dysmenorrhcea ; in 
patients with a tuberculous history. 

Tubercular deposit begins in apex of lungs, usually 
the left (Phos., Sulph., Ther.). 

Eczema : tubercular over entire body ; itching in- 
tense, < at night when undressing, from bathing ; 
immense quantities of white bran-like scales ; oozing 
behind the ears, in the hair, in folds of skin with raw- 
ness and soreness ; firey red skin. Ringworm. 

Relations. — Complementary : Psor., Sulph. 

When Psor., Sulph., or the best selected remedy 
fails to relieve or permanently improve ; follows Psor. 
as a constitutional remedy in hay fever, asthma. 

Belladonna, for acute attacks, congestive or inflam- 
matory, occurring in tubercular diseases. 

Hydrastis to fatten patients cured with Tuber. 



VALERIANA. 

Valerian. Valerianacece. 

Excessive nervous excitability ; hysterical nervous 
temperament (Ign., Puis.) ; persons in whom the in- 

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VALERIANA— ( Continued ) . 

tellectual faculties predominate ; changeable disposi- 
tion. 

Red parts become white (Fer.). 

Feels light as if floating in the air (Asar., Lac c. — 
as if legs were floating, Sticta). 

Oversensitiveness of all the senses (Cham., Nux). 

Sensation of great coldness in head (on vertex, 
Sep., Ver.). 

Sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat 
(on tongue, Nat, Sil.). 

Child vomits : curdled milk, in large lumps ; same 
in stools (^Eth.) ; as soon as it has nursed, after mother 
has been angry. 

Sciatica : pain < when standing and letting foot 
rest on floor (Bell.) ; when straightening out limb, dur- 
ing rest from previous exertion ; > when walking. 

Relations. — Compare : Asaf., Asar., Croc, Ign., 
Lac c, Spig., Sulph. 

For the abuse of Chamomile tea. 

For pains in heels : Agar., Caust, Cyc, Led., 
Mang., Phyt. 



VARIOLINUH. 

Pus fro7n smallpox pustide. A Nosode. 

Only fragmentary provings. 

Bears the same relation to small pox that Anti- 
toxin does to diphtheria. 

An extended clinical record by competent and re- 
liable observers attests its curative value in variola, — 

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V ARIOUGSUUI— ( Continued ) . 

simple, confluent and malignant, — as well as in 
varioloid and varicella. 

It has done splendid work in all potencies, from 
the 6th cent, to the cm. 

As a preventive of, or protection against, small- 
pox, it is far superior to crude vaccination and ab- 
solutely safe from the sequellse, especially septic and 
tubercular infection. The efficacy of the potency is 
the stumbling block to the materialist. But is it 
more difficult to comprehend than the infectious na- 
ture of variola, measles or pertussis? Those who 
have not used it, like those who have not experi- 
mentally tested the law of similars, are not competent 
witnesses. Put it to the test and publish the failures 
to the world. 



VBRATRUM ALBUM. 

White Hellebore. Melanthacece* 

For children and old people ; the extremes of life ; 
persons who are habitually cold and deficient in vital 
reaction ; young people of a nervous, sanguine tem- 
perament. 

Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital 
forces ; complete prostration ; collapse. 

Cold perspiration on the forehead (over entire body, 
Tab.); with nearly all complaints. 

Cannot bear to be left alone ; yet persistently re- 
fuses to talk. 

300 



VERATRIJM ALBUM- {Continued). 

Thinks she is pregnant or will soon be delivered. 

Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, espe- 
cially clothes (Taran.) ; with lewd, lascivious talk, 
amorous or religious (Hyos., Stram.). 

Attacks of fainting from least exertion (Carbo v., 
Sulph.) ; excessive weakness. 

Sinking feeling during hemorrhage (fainting, Trill.). 

Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex, with chilli- 
ness (Sep.) ; as of heat and cold at same time on scalp ; 
as if brain were torn to pieces. 

Face : pale, blue, collapsed ; features sunken, 
hippocratic ; red while lying, becomes pale on rising 
up (Aeon.). 

Thirst : intense, unquenchable, for large quantities 
of very cold water and acid drinks ; wants everything 
cold. 

Craving for acids or refreshing things (Phos. ac). 

Icy coldness ; of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, 
arms, and many other parts. 

Cold feeling in abdomen (Colch., Tab.). 

Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhoea. 

Vomiting : excessive with nausea and great pros- 
tration ; < by drinking (Ars.) ; by least motion (Tab.) ; 
great weakness after. 

Cutting pain in abdomen as from knives. 

Cholera : vomiting and purging ; stool, profuse, 
watery, gushing, prostrating ; after fright (Aeon.). 

Diarrhoea : frequent, greenish, watery, gushing ; 
mixed with flakes ; cutting colic, with cramps com- 
mencing in hands and feet and spreading all over ; 
prostrating, after fright ; < least movement ; with 

301 



YERATRUM ALBUM- ( Continued ) . 

vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during and prostra- 
tion after (Ars., Tab.). 

Constipation : no desire ; stool large, hard (Bry., 
Sulph.) ; in round, black balls (Chel., Op., Plb.) \ 
from inactive rectum ; frequent desire felt in epigas- 
trium (Ign. — in rectum, Nux) ; painful, of infants 
and children, after Lye. and Nux. 

Dysmenorrhcea : with vomiting and purging, or ex- 
hausting diarrhoea with cold sweat (Amm. c, Bov.) ; 
is so weak can scarcely stand for two days at each 
menstrual nisus (Alum., Carbo an., Coc). 

Bad effects of opium eating, tobacco chewing. 

Pains in the limbs during wet weather, getting 
worse from warmth of bed, better by continued 
walking. 

In congestive or pernicious inter mittent fever , with ex- 
treme coldness, thirst; face cold and collapsed; skin 
cold and clammy, great prostration ; cold sweat on 
forehead and deathly pallor on face. 

Relations. — After : Ars., Arm, Cinch., Cup., Ipec. 

After Camph. in cholera and cholera morbus. 

After Amm. c, Carbo v. and Bov., in dysmenorrhcea 
with vomiting and purging. 

Aggravation. — From least motion ; after drinking ; 
before and during menses ; during stool ; when per- 
spiring ; after fright. 

Often removes bad effects of excessive use of alcohol 
and tobacco. 



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VERATRUM VIRIOE. 

Green Hellebore. Melanthacece. 

For full-blooded, plethoric persons. 

Congestions, especially to base of brain, chest, spine 
and stomach. 

Violent pains attending inflammation. 

Acute rheumatism, high fever, full, hard, rapid 
pulse, severe pains in joints and muscles (Bry., 
Salyc. ac.) ; scanty, red urine. 

Child trembles, jerks, threatened with convulsions ; 
continual jerking or nodding of the head. 

Nervous or sick headache ; congestion from sup- 
pressed menses ; intense, almost apoplectic, with vio- 
lent nausea and vomiting. 

Congestive apoplexy, hot head, bloodshot eyes, 
thick speech, slow full pulse, hard as iron. 

Convulsions : dim vision ; basilar meningitis ; head 
retracted ; child on verge of spasms. 

Cerebro spinal diseases ; with spasms, dilated pupils, 
tetanic convulsions, opisthotonos ; cold, clammy per- 
spiration. 

Sunstroke, head full, throbbing of arteries, sensitive 
to sound ; double or partial vision (Gels., Glon.). 

Tongue : white or yellow with red streak down 
the middle ; dry, moist, white or yellow coating, or no 
coating on either side ; feels scalded (Sang.). 

Pulse : suddenly increases and gradually decreases 
below normal ; slow, soft, weak ; irregular, inter- 
mittent (Dig., Tab.). 

Veratrum viride should not be given simply to 
" bring down the pulse " or " control the heart's 

303 



YERATRUM VIRIDK— ( Continued ) . 

action," but like any other remedy for the totality of 
the symptoms. 

2JINCUM METALLICTM. 

Zinc. The Element. 

Persons suffering from cerebral and nervous ex- 
haustion ; defective vitality, brain or nerve power 
wanting ; too weak to develop exanthemata or men- 
strual function, to expectorate, to urinate ; to compre- 
hend, to memorize. 

Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or 
lower extremities; must move them constantly. 

Always feels better every way as soon as the menses 
begin to flow ; it relieves all her sufferings, but they 
return again soon after the flow ceases. 

In cerebral affections : in impending paralysis of 
brain ; where the vis medicatrix naturae is too weak to 
develop exanthemata (Cup., Sulph., Tub.) ; symptoms 
of effusion into ventricles. 

Child repeats everything said to it. 

Child cries out during sleep ; whole body jerks 
during sleep ; wakes frightened, stares, rolls the head 
from side to side ; face alternately pale and red. 

Convulsions : during dentition, with pale face, no 
heat, except perhaps in occiput, no increase in temper- 
ature (rev. of, Bell.) ; rolling the eyes ; gnashing the 
teeth. 

Automatic motion of hands and head, or one hand 
and head (Apoc, Bry., Hell.). 

304 



ZmCUM METALLICUM-( Continued ) . 

Chorea : from suppressed eruptions ; from fright. 

Hunger : ravenous, about n or 12 a. m. (Sulph.) ; 
great greediness when eating ; cannot eat fast enough 
(incipient brain disease in children). 

Excessive nervous moving of feet in bed for hours 
after retiring, even when asleep. 

Feet sweaty and sore about toes ; fetid, suppressed 
foot-sweat ; very nervous. 

Chilblains, painful, < from rubbing. 

Spinal affections : burning whole length of spine ; 
backache, much < from sitting > by walking about 
(Cobalt, Puis., Rhus). 

Spinal irritation ; great prostration of strength. 

Cannot bear back touched (Chin, s., Taran., Ther.). 

Can only void urine while sitting bent backwards. 

Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Agar., 
Ign.). 

Weakness and trembling of extremities ; of hands 
while writing ; during menses. 

During sweat, cannot tolerate any covering. 

Relations. — Compare : Hell., Tuber., in incipient 
brain diseases from suppressed eruptions. 

Aggravation. — Of many symptoms from drinking 
wine, even a small quantity (Alum., Con.). 

Amelioration. — Symptoms : of chest, by expectorat- 
ing ; of bladder, by urinating ; of back, by emissions 
(< by Cobalt.) ; general, by menstrual flow. 

Is followed well : by, Ign. but not by Nux, which 
disagrees. 

Inimical. — Cham, and Nux ; should not be used 
before or after. 

T 305 



INDEX 



Abrotanum. 11, 12, 19, 74, 146, 149, 155, 199, 214, 255, 282, 297. 

Acetic acid. 12, 29, 39, 40, 41, 48, 121, 160, 224, 281. 

Aconitum napellus. 13, 50, 58, 67, 69, 90, 102, 129, 138, 155, 193, 

208, 212, 213, 228, 240, 243, 2 7o, 275, 301. 
Actea racetnosa. 15, 27, 68, 72, 79, 88, 107, 115, 134, 161, 176, 

240, 268. 
Actea spicata. 87. 

j^Es cuius hippocastanum. 17, 30, 104, 167, 296. 
yElhusa cynapium. 19, n, 16, 299. 
Agaricus muscarhis. 20, n, 17, 24, 109, 115, 159, 165, 198, 222, 

240, 263, 273, 287, 299, 305. 
Agnus castus. 21, 43, 127, 161. 
Ailanthus glandulosa. 29, 118. 
Aletris farinosa. 88, 137. 

Allium cepa. 22, 30, 50, 76, 84, 124, 147, 161, 218. 
Allium sativum. 49. 
Aloe socotrina. 23, 18, 37, 43, 68, 73, 111, 196, 200, 218, 223, 224, 

233, 238, 246, 254, 259, 278, 294. 
Alumen. 63, 205, 268. 
Alumina. 25, 15. 16, 30, 41, 44, 52, 57, 72, 83, 85, 95, 101, 125, 

131, 138, 146, 150, 151, 180, 184, 205, 221, 229, 262, 283, 302, 305. 
Ambra grisea. 27, 21, 248, 293. 
Ammonium carbonicum. 28, 13, 47, 49, 63, 65, 87, 139, 153, 159, 

162, 170, 200, 210, 250, 265, 302. 
Ammonium muriaticum. 30, 25, 42, 90, 174, 175, 201. 
Amylenum nitrosum. 30, 13, 44, 58, 71, 125, 130, 184, 230. 
Anacardium orientate. 32, 26, 52, 53, 78, 79, 101, 125, 136, 152, 

161, 164, 166, 207, 215, 229, 232, 272, 297. 
Anguslura. 127. 
Anisum stellatum. 291. 
Anthracinum. 33, 48, 87, 109, 288. 



308 INDEX. 

Antimonium crudum. 35, 28, 37, 74, 84, 131, 147, 184, 197, 210, 

266, 277, 295. 
Antimonium tartaricum. 37, 21, 35, 65, 66, 83, 96, 101, 148, 149, 

165, 170, 207, 232, 292, 295. 
Apis mellifica. 39, 18, 19, 43, 59, 63, 65, 85, 104, 114, 118, 122, 

135, 13 6 . I 56, 199, 201, 202, 207, 213, 215, 220, 221, 244, 249, 257, 

276, 289. 
Apocynum cannabinum. 40, 39, 68, 304. 
Aralia racemosa. 150. 
Aranea diadema. 37, 121, 202, 204. 
Argentum metallicum. 41, 44, 259, 260. 
Argentum nitricum. 42, 25, 31, 33, 35, 50, 53, 79, 85, 100, 112, 

128, 138, 164, 167, 180, 250, 269, 280, 290. 
Arnica Montana. 45, 12, 28, 55, 56, 76, 89, 90, 100, 108, 123, 124, 

133, 135, 141, 142, 153, 179, x 93, 194, 214, 232, 237, 238, 240, 246, 

247, 282. 
Arse?iicum album. 47, 13, *9< 22, 24, 33, 43, 44, 50, 62, 63, 69, 72, 

83, 94, 100, 103, 104, 108, 112, 121, 127, 128, 149, 153, 161, i75 } 

178, 200, 205, 206, 220, 223, 228, 233, 236, 243, 253, 257, 263, 269, 

271, 278, 288, 289, 301, 302. 
Arsenicum iodatum. 22, 204. 
Arum dracontium. 251. 

Arum triphyllum. 49, 41, 42, 44, 63, 120, 135, 161. 

Asafcetida. 22, 54, 162, 164, 190, 284, 299. 

Asarum Europceum. 51, 43, 63, 70, 71,87, 125, 162, 180, 283, 299. 

Astacus fluviatilis. 144. 

Asterias rubens, 52, 107, 108 

Aurum metallicum. 53, 42, 67, 75, 106, 157, 161, 187, 197, 242, 

272, 273, 284. 

B. 

Badiaga. 83, 94, 154. 

Baptisia tinctoria. 55, 45, 57, "7. Il8 > I2 9, 207, 237, 247, 275. 

Baryta carbonica. 56, 55, 65, 124, 135, 138, 176, 179, 2I2 , 232, 233, 

243, 255, 264. 
Belladonna. 57, 18, 20, 24, 28, 31, 39, 54, 68, 86, 93, 102, 119, 121, 

123, 129, 130, 134, 135, 142, 150, 160, 176, 177, 184, 212, 213, 215, 

223, 263, 275, 276, 280, 290, 304. 
Bellis perennis. 123, 166, 253. 
Benzoic acid. 60, 224. 
Berberis vulgaris. 60, 75, I2 2, 171, 181, 255, 259, 266, 286, 289. 



INDEX. 309 

Bismuth. 62, 92, 102, 153, 170, 273, 275. 

Blatta orientalis. 41. 

Borax, 62, 6.5, 92, 100, 107, 125, 128, 132, 157, 161, 171, 253, 256, 

270, 281. 
Bovista. 64, 29, 30, 39, 47, 70, 80, 107, 152, 157, 161, 176, 199,247, 

265, 276. 
Bromium. 65, 21, 46, 83, 84, 132, 146, 150, 162. 236, 269. 
Bryonia alba. 66, 24, 33, 41, 59, 62, 92, 96, 97, 101, 102, 104, 119, 

120, 121, 123, 124, 134, 153, 160, 162, 163, 164, r74, 176, 177, 202, 

203, 208, 211, 213, 214, 215, 218, 221, 223, 225, 226, 228, 236, 240, 

243, 244, 275, 278, 280, 302, 303, 304. 
Bufo. 113, 159, 184. 

C. 

Cactus grandiflorus. 69, 3 2 , 65, 105, 115, 146, 155, 167, 176, 179, 

185, 268, 269. 
Catadium. 70, 21, 22, 43, 63, 82, 206, 233, 259, 260. 
Calcarea arsenicum. 71, 146. 
Calcarea iodide. 57. 
Calcarea fluoricum. 75, 127. 
Calcarea ostrearum. 71, 21, 25, 27, 35, 56, 57, 59, 64, 70, 74, 88, 

108, 109, 116, 132, 134, 139, 146, 151, 161, 162, 169, 175, 177, So, 

185, 194, 199, 201, 216, 218, 236, 237, 241, 243, 253, 254, 259, 264. 
Calcarea phosphoricum. 74, 35. 43, 61, 77, 83, 89, 99, 136, 144, 199, 

205, 218, 266, 282, 295, 296. 
Calendula. 76, 45, 64, 87, 133, 139, 142, 143, 265, 281. 
Camphora. 77, 86, 138, 172, 236, 258. 
Cannabis Indica. 78, 25, 42, 100, [13, 180, 207, 290. 
Cannabis saliva. 79, 33, 289. 

Cantharides. 80, 61, 87, 103, 122, 151, 173, 217, 227, 249, 259, 2-9. 
Capsicum. 81, 98. 
Carbo animalis. 83, 26, 66, 75, 101, 131, 146, 152, 166, 183, 198, 

216, 302. 
Carbo vegetabilis. 84, 49, 55, 83, 86, 87, 88, 90, 97, 98, 109, 126, 

159, 160, 171, 179, 205, 212, 301, 302. 
Carbolic acid. 86, 13, 32, 34, 80, 103, 118, 128, 151, 160, 204, 237, 

239, 268. 
Carduus marianus. 94, 98. 
Cascarilla. 94, 162. 
Caulophyllum . 87, 16, 90, 176, 178, 248, 274. 



310 INDEX. 

Causticum. 89, 15. 27, 30, 43, 50, 51, 65, 66, 70, 84, 85, 93, 100, 

102, 107, 113, 115, 127, 129, 139, 154, 159, 161, 167, 181, 183, 200, 

201, 204, 212, 221, 299. 
Curare. 223. 
Chamomilla. 91, 17, 45. 58, 9 6 > io2 . io 5> H5, !55, m. 210, 213, 

228, 241, 242, 376, 299. 
Chelidonium. 91, 33, 116, 123, 154, 176, 186, 187, 214, 215, 230, 

244, 262, 270, 302. 
Chenopodium glaucum. 93. 
Cinchona. 97, 79. 8 4, 85, 108, 116, 126, 134, 138, 145, 153, 171, 172, 

217, 220, 224, 236, 251. 
Chininum sulphuricum. 97, 98, 99, 150, 163, 182, 291, 305. 
Chlorine. 66, 118, 251. 
Cicuta vi?osa. 95, 26, 96, 275. 

Cina. 96, 63, 92, 140, 146, 162, 172, 180, 232, 241, 249, 259, 267, 289. 
Cinnabaris. 192. 
Cinnamomum. 162, 258. 
Cimex, 30, 90. 
Clematis. 179, 242. 
Cobaltum. 212, 305. 
Coca. 99, 3 1 , I2 5. 127. 
Cocaine. 115. 
Coccus cacti. 119, 120, 146. 
Cocculus. 100, 16, 26, 42, 83, 88, 89, 95, 103, 112, 115, 120, 125, 

131, 146, 164, 173, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 215, 216, 302. 
Coffeacruda. 102, 44, 45, 62, 89, 91, 92, 128, 144, 145, 162, 177. 
Colchicum autumnale. 100, 48, 60, 80, 148, 165, 208, 210, 242, 258, 

263, 271, 274, 285, 289, 301. 
Collinsonia Canadensis. 104, 68, 172, 224. 
Colocynth. 105, 67, 98, 107, 117, 123, 162, 174, 176, 177, 178. 
Commocladia dentata. 268. 
Conium maculatum. 106, 41, 5 2 , 53. 54, 58, 64, 71, 83, 92, 99, 121, 

133 137, 146, 152, 157, 162, 164, 166, 172, 174, 176, 177, 187, 208, 

25 r, 266, 273, 297, 305. 
Convallaria. 116. 
Copaiba. 295. 

Cor allium rubrum. 119, 140. 
Crocus sativus. 108, 115,127, 144, 162, 207,228, 229, 279, 294, 

299. 
Crotalus horridus. 109, 33, 69, in, n8, 133, 134, 156, I59> 2o6 > 

338, 257, 28 r. 



INDEX. 311 

Croton tiglium. HI, 24, 43, 52, 53, 54, 126, 166, 226, 266. 

Cubeba. 78. 

Culex. 293. 

Cundurango. 50, 139. 

Cuprum metallicum. 113, 44, 58, 112, 120, 183, 265, 266, 306. 

Cylamen Europceum. H4, 299. 

D. 

Daphne odor a. 179. 

Digitalis. 115, 16, 98, 99, 105, no, 129, 146, 172, 206, 303. 

Dioscorea. 117, 29, 105, 219. 

Diptherinum. 117, 55. 

Dolichos. 44, 156. 

Drosera. 119, 27 42, 97, 141, 221. 

Dulcamara. 120, 57, 107, 204, 247. 

E. 

Elaps corralli7ius. 108, in, 285. 

Epigea. 163, 252. 

Equisetum hyemale. 122, 255. 

Erechthites. 194. 

Erygeron Canadense. 148. 

Eugenia j'ambos. 153, 253, 256. 

Eupatorium perfoliatum. 123, 21, 90, 148, 179, 238. 

Eupatorium purpweum. 123. 

Euphrasia. 124, 22, 23, 126, 149, 200, 208, 248. 

Euphorbia. 34, 240. 

F. 

Ferrum metallicum. 125, 12, 31, 51, 60, 98, 114, 122, 124, 130, 

145, 182, 208, 224, 248, 252, 284, 296, 299. 
Ferrum phosphoricum. 122, 125, 177, 184. 
Fluoricum acidum. 126, 56, 57, 63, 75, 99, 261, 266, 282. 

G. 

Gambogia. 25, 52, in, 112, 224, 257. 

Gelsemium. 127, 25, 42, 52, 55, 86, 88, 90, 102, ir5, 118, 135, 150, 

152, 172, 176, 214, 222, 303. 
Gettisburg. 266. 
Glonoine, 129, 28, 31, 54, 58, 69, 71, 172, 185, 198, 303. 



312 INDEX. 

Gnaphalium. 106. 

Graphites. 131, 30, 57, 65, 73, 90, 121, 127, 129, 137, 153, 161, 165, 

201, 205, 214, 216, 226, 232, 239, 253, 254, 261, 265, 266, 283. 
Gratiola. 52, in. 
Grindelia. 28, 159, 162, 213. 
Guaiacum. 90, 101, 193. 
Gymnocladus . 150. 

H. 

Hamamelis Virginica. 133, 64, 142, 156, 193, 194, 295. 

Hekla lava. 127. 

Helleborus. 134, 29, 58, 59, 68, 172, 213, 223, 289, 304. 

Helonias dioica. 136, 75, 77, 88, 92, 168, 183, 195. 

Hepar sulphur . 137, 15, 28, 38, 44, 50, 57, 58, 64, 66, 67, 68, 72, 77, 
102, 117, 124, 132, 150, 154, 161, 174, i8r, 185, 192, 200, 201, 205, 
207, 208, 216, 226, 234, 241, 243, 254, 265, 266, 270, 273, 277, 280, 
297. 

Hydrastis Canadensis. 140, 134, 144, 148, 173, 180, 268, 287, 298. 

Hydrocyanicum acidum. 95. 

Hyoscyamus. 140, 27, 68, 74, 119, 144, 152, 213, 246, 301. 

Hypericum. 142, 46, 76, 95, 166, 223, 266. 



Ignatia. 143, 18, 40, 45, 75, 82, 89, 95, 101, 102, 108, 109, 125, 127, 
128, 135, 144, 148, 150, 153, 158, 160, 161, 175, 202, 207, 2IO, 211, 
215, 217, 228, 235, 272, 276, 293, 298, 302, 305. 

Indigo. 119, 148, 252. 

Iodine. 146, ii, 12, 33, 35, 66, 101, 107, 139, 15 r, 153, 176, 199, 
200, 202, 250, 255, 265, 282, 297, 298. 

Ipecacuanha. 147, 3 8 » 5 1 . 9 8 > IJ 3. I2 5, 129, 168, 172, 193, 297, 285. 



Jalapa. 161, 170. 

Jatropha curcas. 52, 77, 224. 



K. 



Kali bichromatum. 149, 39, 64, 73, 74, 80, 118, 128, 140, 161, 167, 

170, 190, 208, 211, 225, 232, 235. 
Kali bromatum. 151, 107, 112, 160, 200, 266. 
Kali carbonicum. 153, 21, 29, 31, 39, 57, 67, 68, 90, 93, 94, 107, 

119, 127, 139, 146, 161, 170, 175, 176, 187, 199, 220, 277. 



INDEX. 313 

Kali iodatum. 203, 226, 262, 271, 281. 

Kali muriaticum. 77, 189, 216, 233, 237. 

Kali nitricum. 174. 

Kali permanganate. 214. 

Kali phosphoricum. 20, 33, 128, 152, 226, 227, 228, 229, 232, 250 

266. 
Kali sulphuricum. 38, 121, 122, 150, 154, 235. 
Kalmia latifolia. 155, 130, 165, 242, 265, 267, 268. 
Kava kava. 33. 
Kreosotum. 155, 30, §7, 9 2 , 97, 131, J 59, l6 3, l6 7, ^74, i9 2 > 22 °> 

236, 241, 262, 272, 295. 

L. 

Lachesis. 157, 22, 28, 31, 34, 36, 39, 40, 44, 49, 64, 69, 70, 103, 108, 
in, 112, 129, 130, 138, 144, 148, 150, 154, 156, 161, 162, 166, 167, 
170, 177, 180, 183, 185, 186, 189, 194, 198, 200, 207, 208, 213, 215, 
220, 225, 226, 250, 251, 254, 257, 262, 263, 269, 275, 276, 283, 285, 
287, 288, 289, 290, 293. 

Lachnanthes. 30, 220. 

Lactic acid. 234. 

Lac caninum. 160, 16, 22, 32, 39, 51, 63, 66, 78, 107, 117, 118, 123, 
137, 150, 159, 166, 167, 173, 174, 176, 178, 187, 207, 208, 225, 226, 
229, 235, 250, 253, 299. 

Lac defloratum. 163, 22, 107, 150, 151, 162 221, 232, 283. 

Lappa major. 137. 

Laurocerasus . 233. 

Leptandra. 238. 

Ledum palustre. 165, 46, 80, 83, 133, 142, 155, 175, 183, 186, 198, 
242, 256, 261, 265, 267, 281, 299. 

Lilium tigrinum. 166, 21, 32, 42, 52, 59, 62, 65, 108, 161, 169, 170, 
174, 195, 198, 200, 224, 238, 254, 263. 

Lithia carbonicum. 53, 60, 71. 

Lobelia. 168, 20, 209. 

Lycopodium. 169, 21, 26, 33, 38, 44, 53, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 70, 
89, 94, 106, 107, 114, 126, 138, 148, 152, 153, 160, 161, 162, 166, 176, 
180, 181, 194, 207, 208, 220, 224, 231, 232, 235, 236, 256, 261, 267, 
274, 279, 283, 294, 302. 

Lyssin. 172, 59, I2 5, *37, U9, 171, J 95, 221, 223, 294. 

M. 

Magnesia carbonicum. 173, 15, 19, 28, 65, 139, 167, 181, 241, 280. 



314 INDEX. 

Magnesia muriaticum. 175, 30, 63, 163, 200, 254, 265. 
Magnesia phosphoricum. 176, 58, 86, 105, 123, 150, 172, 174, 215, 

236. 
Magneticus polaris arcticus. 266. 
Magnesia sulphuricum. 65, 184. 
Manganum aceticum. 235. 
Manganum metallicum. 141, 299. 
Marum verum (Teucrium). 22, 96, 97, 170, 191, 266. 
Medorrhinum. 178, 21, 6r, 77, 93, 174, 215, 254, 255, 278, 283, 

292, 295. 
Melilotus alba. 184, 26, 58, 59, 133, 232. 
Menyanthes trifoliatum . 184, 69. 
Mephitis. 251. 
Mercurius. 185, 27, 50, 64, 80, 93, 94, 100, 122, 123, 137, 161, 165, 

168, 173, 175, 180, 192, 193, 200, 205, 206, 225, 226, 236, 256, 266, 

271, 279, 282, 287. 
Mercurius biniodide. 190, 12, 43. 
Mercurius corrosivus. 188, 106. 
Mercurius cyanide. 189. 
Mercurius dulcis, 189. 
Mercurius protoiodide. 189. 
Mercurius solubilis. 190. 
Mercurius sulphuricus. 191. 
Mezereum. 192, 186, 188, 232, 240, 273, 293. 
Millefolium. 193, 12, 69, 148, 212, 247, 249, 295, 296. 
Murex. 194, 21, 52, 59, 162, 167, 196, 198, 200, 227, 261, 262, 263. 
Muriatic acid. 195, 18, 24, 56, 57, 200, 206, 219, 281, 289. 
Mygale. 20, 197, 288. 
Myrtus communis. 73, 291. 

N. 

Naja tripudians. 197, 53> m, 160, 267, 268, 288. 

Natrum carbonicum. 197, 123, 129, 130, 131, 202, 215, 236, 242, 

247, 278. 
Natrum muriaticum. 199, i-i, 24, 33, 36, 43, 75, 90, 124, 135, 139, 

146, 151, 155, 161, 172, 175, 180, 183, 185, 186, 198, 205, 216, 218, 

227, 229, 233, 234, 244, 247, 253, 255, 267, 270, 272, 287, 294, 297, 

298, 299. 
Natrum phosphoricum, 190. 
Natrum sulphuricum. 202, 38, 60, 102, 121, 139, 190, 199, 20S, 

236, 240, 245. 



INDEX. 315 

Niccolum. 203, 236. 

Nitric acid. 204, 27, 32, 33, 44, 50, 132, 138, 145, 154, 159, 161, 

164, 173, 196, 200, 201, 210, 238, 239, 249, 262, 274, 281. 
Nitri spiritus dulcis. 219. 
Nitrum. 60. 
Nux moschata. 207, 15, 38, 100, 108, 144, 162, 209, 210, 211, 236, 

261, 270, 288, 290, 294. 
Nux vomica. 209, 20. 25, 28, 33, 46, 33, 62, 67, 68, 70, 89, 92, 100, 

102, 103, ii2, 132, 138, 139, 141, 144, 145, 153, 161, 170, 175, 183, 

188, 195, 198, 213, 215, 223, 224, 236, 243, 250, 251, 263, 272, 276, 

299, 302. 

O. 

Ocitnum. 181. 

Oleander. 24, 138, 200, 238, 246. 

Opium. 212, 12, 26, 38, 46, 58, 68, 85, 86, 87, 92, 93, 94, 102, 141, 

142, 159, !74. 207, 208, 211, 230, 238, 255, 273, 275, 276, 302. 
Origanum. 70, 194, 227. 
Oxalic acid. 57, 75, 77, 180, 183. 



Palladium. 41. 

Paris quadrifolia. 139. 

Petroleum. 215, 25, 55, 80, 201, 266, 275. 

Petroselinum . 216, 80, 91, 151, 156. 

Phellandrium . 226. 

Phosphoric acid. 217, 75, 89, 97, 127, 153, 157, 158, 220, 221, 250, 

261, 272. 301. 
Phosphorus. 219, 21, 27, 30, 40, 42, 50, 54, 67, 69, 72, 84, 86, 90, 

98, 109, no, ii2, 125, 141, 146, 153, 154, 155, 156, 159, 163, 164, 

169, 171, 174, 198, 215, 224, 227, 229, 231, 234, 240, 242, 245, 253, 

257, 262, 266, 270, 271, 278, 292, 298. 
Phytolacca. 225, 68, 92, 115, 193, 223, 248, 282, 284, 294, 299. 
Phy so stigma. 222, 143- 
Picric acid. 226, 80, 183, 190, 229, 266. 
Pix liquid a. 291. 
PI ant ago major. 268. 

Platina. 227, 26, 68, 86, 155, 162, 195, 207, 215, 270, 273, 294. 
Plumbum. 229, 85, 94, 98, 138, 177, 201, 214, 238, 302. 
Podophyllum. 223, 25, 54, 55, 59, 60, 93, in, 116, 135, 139, 145, 

176, 186, 200, 223, 225, 230, 244, 249, 271. 



316 INDEX. 

Psorinum. 231, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 30, 32, 33, 55, 57, 63, 75, 76, 
77, 83, 84, 87, 91, 95, 107, 108, 132, 138/ 139, 153, 161, 164, 170, 
172, 180, 185, 201, 202, 215, 238, 239, 241, 242, 249, 252, 253, 254, 
256, 259, 264, 265, 277, 278, 279, 281, 283, 285. 

Ptelea trifoliata. 67, 68, 69. 

Pulsatilla. 235, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 29, 30, 35, 38, 39, 43, 44, 62, 67, 
68, 69, 73, 86, 87, 88, 89, 93, 98, 102, 114, 115, 131, 134, 145, 147, 
150, 160, 161, 164, 166, 175, 176, 186, 199, 200, 202, 203, 207, 209, 
210, 217, 222, 224, 225, 226, 228, 246, 249, 253, 260, 261, 265, 270, 
280, 290, 291, 293, 298, 305. 

Pyrogen. 237, 34, 49, 55, 56, 87, no, in, 123, 159, 207, 214, 247, 
276, 289. 

R. 

Ranunculus bulbosus. 240, 17, 20, 36, 68, 83, 250. 

Ranunculus sceleratus. 132, 287. 

Ratanhia. 239, 145, 205. 

Rheum. 241. 72, 139, 173, 280 

Rhododendron . 241, 41, 151, 209, 243, 245. 

Rhus radicans. 33. 

Rhus toxicodendron. 242, 23, 36, 40, 43, 45, 46, 47, 54, 58, 65, 66, 
77, 89, 90, 93, 94, 108, in, 112, 122, 138, 150, 163, 166, 174, 186, 
188, 208, 218, 222, 225, 235, 240, 242, 251, 275, 280, 284, 287, 294, 

305. 
Rhus venenata. 33, 252. 
Robinia. 281. 

Rumex crispus. 245, 24, 91, 119. 
Ruta graveolens. 246, 43, 47, 75, 77, J 43, H5, 166, 287, 266, 281. 

S. 
Sabadilla 249, 160, 252. 

Sabina. 248, 15, 16, 109, 131, 193, 198, 258, 261, 274, 296. 
Salicylic acid. 76, 77, 240, 303. 
Sambucus nigra. 250, 28, 49, 170, 182, 210, 294. 
Sanguinaria. 251, 22, 93, 128, 130, 158, 162, 177, 182, 216, 254, 

256, 263, 267, 278, 284, 303. 
Sanguinaria nitrate. 22, 252. 
Sanicula. 253, n, 12, 30, 57, 63, 72, 73, 92, 125, 128, 146, 175, 

199, 201, 215, 216, 229, 238, 241, 255, 259, 263, 264, 266, 277, 278, 

294- 
Santonine. 97. 



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INDEX. 317 

Sarsaparilla. 255, 61, 63, 122, 186, 200, 232, 255, 266, 294. 

Scilla. 200, 246. 

Secale cornutum. 256, 4 2 , 49, 77, 78, 88, 138, 159, 165, 179, 239, 

248, 249, 298. 
Selenium. 259, 21, 22, 43, 50, 70, 73, 99, 254, 293. 
Senecio aureus. 102, 247. 
Sepia. 260, 21, 26, 27, 48, 54, 59, 65, 68, 73, 88, 90, 94, 102, 103, 

108, 129, 131, 132, 135, 139, T44, 150, 156, 158, 161, 164, 165, 167, 

168, 185, 194, 195, 198, 200, 201, 215, 239, 259, 265, 270, 271, 299, 

301. 
Silicea. 264, 25, 26, 29, 30, 35, 38, 44, 55, 57, 58, 61, 64, 71, 74, 75, 

92, 112, 113, 127, 128, 135, 138, 139, 152, 163, 165, 175, 177, 185, 

200, 202, 214, 216, 218, 220, 226, 227, 242, 249, 252, 253, 254, 256, 

259, 267, 290, 292, 294, 299. 
Sinapis. 292. 

Spigelia. 267, 49. 97, 155, 201, 249, 252, 265, 276, 280, 283, 289. 
Spongia. 269, 12, 15, 97, 113, 126, 127, 147, 197, 245, 268, 269, 

272, 274, 276. 
Squilla. 36, 89, 122. 
Stannum. 270, 42, 89, 113, 116, 215, 219, 221, 228, 259, 260, 267, 

280, 282. 
Staphisagria. 272, 53, 62, 67, 95, 97, 103, 105, 106, 117, 127, 143, 

144, 148, 170, 201, 206, 219, 221, 228, 236, 241, 283, 285, 293. 
Sticta. 28, 150, 299. 
Stramonium. 275, 21, 32, 58, 59, 62, 64, 100, 142, 152, 159, 165, 

173, 301- 

Strontium. 162, 175, 247, 265. 

Sulphur. 277, 13, 20, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31, 32, 35, 44, 46, 51, 61, 66, 
72, 73, 85, 86,91, 92, 109, 117, 128, 132, 135, 139, 145, 146, 157, 
158, 159, 160, 164, 166, 169, 173, 174, 176, 180, 183, 194, 204, 205, 
210, 211, 216, 220, 224, 231, 232, 233, 234, 236, 237, 239, 252, 254. 
261, 262, 263, 268, 281, 283, 291, 294, 297, 298, 301, 302, 304, 305. 

Sulphuric acid. 280, 12, 21, 47, 71, 77, 126, 187, 230, 241, 280, 283, 
289. 

Symphytum officinale. 282, 45, 75, 127, 246, 248, 281. 

Syphilinum. 282, 15, 26, 183, 293. 

T. 

labacum. 284, 37, 3 8 , 61, 145, 162, 168, 267, 273, 290, 300, 301, 

3°2, 303- 
Taraxacum. 287, 159, 186, 200. 



318 INDEX. 

Tarentula. 287, 38, 5*, 7°, 109, 125, 301, 305. 

Tellurium. 254, 262. 

Terebinthina. 289, 37, 38, 238, 281. 

Teucrium. 150, 252. 

Theridion curassavicum. 290, 20, 75, 175, 288, 293, 298, 305. 

Thlaspi. 291, 88, 296. 

Thuja. 292, 27, 38, 40, 49, 52, 60, 109, in, 112, 115, 121, 122, 144, 

166, 191, 201, 203, 206, 214, 236, 239, 248, 249, 254, 255, 265, 266, 

273, 274, 279, 284, 290, 291. 
Trillium pendulum. 295, 249, 292, 301. 
Tuberculinum. 296, 11, 12, 29, 48, 63, 72, 73, 127, 134, 135, 138, 

146, 159, 224, 232, 234, 250, 263, 272, 278, 279, 283, 304. 

U. 

Urtica urens. 201. 

Ustilago. 16, 109, 219, 263, 292, 294, 296. 

V. 

Valeriana. 298, 85, 86, 115, 212, 215, 229. 

Variolinum. 299. 

Veratrum. 300, 26, 29, 37, 44, 48, 62, 77, 86, 89, in, 132, 142, 

145, 166, 179, 185, 211, 236, 261, 285, 286, 299. 
Veratrum viride. 303. 
Verbascum. 119. 
Viburnum opulus. 88, 248, 292. 

X. 

Xanthoxylum. 101. 



Zincum. 304, 20, 22, 29, 39, 70, 109, 113, 114, 131, 163, 177, 182, 

183, 194, 214, 220, 227, 229, 278, 287. 
Zingiber. 236. 



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